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Subject: Re: Record forced-mate announcements? ' in 142

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 05:43:27 06/04/02

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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

The longest mate in a human otb-play I know arose in Landau–Abrahams,
Bournemouth 1939, with a # in 142 in this position:

[D]6k1/5R2/K7/1n1nN3/8/8/8/8 b - - 0 78

Helmut

• Re: Record forced-mate announcements? ' in 142 Robert Hyatt 09:56:05 06/04/02
  • Re: Record forced-mate announcements? ' in 142 Helmut Conrady 11:25:51 06/04/02
    • Re: Record forced-mate announcements? ' in 142 Robert Hyatt 13:09:23 06/04/02
      • Re: Record forced-mate announcements? ' in 142 Helmut Conrady 13:40:46 06/04/02
        • Re: Record forced-mate announcements? ' in 142 Roy Eassa 14:59:47 06/04/02
        • Re: Record forced-mate announcements? ' in 142 Roy Eassa 14:18:52 06/04/02
          • Re: Record forced-mate announcements? ' in 142 Roy Eassa 14:32:43 06/04/02
        • Re: Record forced-mate announcements? ' in 142 Roy Eassa 13:57:44 06/04/02

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