Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:20:55 08/21/02
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On August 21, 2002 at 18:33:16, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >[D]8/Q7/K7/5r2/5p2/8/6k1/8 w - - 0 1 >Mate in 103 / Mate in 104 > >I used Wilhelm to find out the longest mate wK+Q against bK+R+P from my >tablebases. It gave the above position. > >Wilhelm calls this a mate in 104 - mate on move 104? - but if I feed the >position in CB8 the tablebase engine calls it a mate in 103. > >Both use the same TB's; isn't there a convention how to call a mate read out >from the TB's? Or is it up to the GUI programmer to report it either way? > >J. The generally agreed-on way is mate in N moves. Which would, by necessity count the first move. IE AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE# would be a mate in three moves... not everyone does this however...
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