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Subject: Re: Record forced-mate announcements?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:19:56 06/03/02

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On June 03, 2002 at 20:02:51, GuyHaworth wrote:

>
>At http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=339
>
>there is a report that in the 7th Round of the 2nd CSVN Computer chess
>tournament (Leiden), 'mate in 64' was announced against Morphy.
>
>The question was also asked:  "is this a record?" to which we might add....
>
>a)  in tournaments, and/or
>b)  in all computer-computer games
>
>Examples of deeper forced win announcements welcome.  I believe KNNKP has
>occured ... and maybe KQPKQ has occured.
>
>g


I don't recall exactly any longer, but on ICC, Ferret once announced a mate
in 104, And Crafty announced a mate in 103.  Both were KNN vs KP endings.
That is the deepest I have seen.



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