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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