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Subject: Re: 2B5/1Nk5/1N6/8/8/8/2K5/1n6 w - - 0 1 Solution? with 6-Tbs

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 07:24:37 07/21/02

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On July 20, 2002 at 17:16:36, John Merlino wrote:

>On July 20, 2002 at 14:35:13, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On July 20, 2002 at 08:33:53, Werner Schuele wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>anybody with 6  tbs can show me the solution!
>>>Werner
>>
>>The 6 man tablebases for this position is not available at Dr. Bob's site.
>>However is appears there is no way for white to win this since he must give up
>>one of the pieces and this will immediately drop into a 5 man tablebase which is
>>a draw.
>>Jim
>
>You may be incorrect. I did a bit of playing around with 5-man DBs, making
>moves, and the following line MIGHT win for White:
>
>1.Nc5 Na3+ (forced -- 1...Kxb6 results in Mate in 34)
>2.Kb3 (or Kb2) Nc5 (forced to keep the draw chance)
>3.Na4
>
>Resulting in this position:
>
>[D]2B5/2k5/1N6/1n6/N7/1K6/8/8 b - - 0 3
>
>Of course, my chess vision just might be terrible, and I can't see the obvious
>draw here for Black. Anybody feel like building the 6-man DB required for this?
>I don't have the CPU time to burn right now. I could do it after we ship CM9000,
>in about 10 days....
>
>jm

Hello John,
I think you are right.  I can't believe my 1300+ rating let me down in this
simple position!
Jim



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