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Subject: Re: End Game Study...

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 09:14:11 12/03/02

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On December 03, 2002 at 09:48:39, Art Basham wrote:

>Some of my portable units have trouble finding..
>1. Kd6..!
>
>[D]8/kp6/4R3/1P2K3/8/3pp3/8/8 w - -
>
>WChess finds it in 8 sec.
>Mach 3 finds it in  about 1 min. 30 sec. at  7 ply...
>
>If black plays 1....d2 or e2,
>2. Kc7 mates!

It should be easy for any portable, that has a well honed mate detection.

The Mach III is usually very good at finding forced mates, but not all the
time!;-)

1. Kd6!!..d2 2.Kc7..d1Q 3.Ra6+!!..ba 4.b6+..Ka8 5.b7+..Ka7 6.b8Q++

Terry



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