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Subject: Re: Tablebase Draws and the audience of chess- no joke friend!!

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 19:52:51 01/23/03

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my 42 move example is quoted from the english language documentation which
accompanies shredder classic regarding the use of shredder's "oracle" function.
should you own s7, you will find it in a msword file on the install cd.





On January 23, 2003 at 18:14:08, James T. Walker wrote:

>On January 23, 2003 at 11:57:25, margolies,marc wrote:
>
>>As we seem to know, using table base look-ups and forcing lines, a chess program
>>may announce mate in 42 moves some time in the middlegame.
>>So if we apply (or misapply) 'rule 14' will these games have endings at all or
>>shall we watch 2/3 of a chess game--- acknowledging that silicon already knows
>>more than carbon in the last dance?
>
>I assume you are just kidding but I remember a match in which Kasparov was
>playing and I was following with Fritz/tablebases.  When I saw Fritz announce
>mate in 32 against Kasparov I was amazed to see Kasparov resign at that very
>moment!  Wish I could remember the game now.
>Jim



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