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Subject: Re: Tablebases Again

Author: blass uri

Date: 10:08:57 10/10/98

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On October 10, 1998 at 00:42:51, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On October 09, 1998 at 22:44:27, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>>nope... KB vs KB == 0.00 in crafty, period...
>>ditto for KN vs KN, KNN vs K, KNN vs KN, etc..
>
>It's interesting.
>
>8/8/8/r7/1nB5/8/N7/K1k5 b - - 0 1
>
>Or, for the FEN-impaired:
>
>wKa1, wNa2, wBc4
>bKc1, bNb4, bRa5
>
>Black to move mates in two.
>
>This is an illustrative (hence un-aesthetic) chess problem that I just composed.
>
>I bet some programs can't handle this in some way.  They'll either not find the
>mate, or they'll find the mate, but declare a draw after 1. ... Rxa2+ 2. Bxa2.

Junior5 does not find the mate but it is not a practical problem in this
position
because Kc2 is also winning

Uri
>
>bruce



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