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Subject: Re: Tablebases Again

Author: blass uri

Date: 10:58:11 10/10/98

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On October 10, 1998 at 09:46:27, James T. Walker wrote:

>I believe you will have a hard time finding a computer or program that will not
>find that mate almost instantly with no tablebases involved.
>Jim Walker
It is easy to find

Junior5 cannot find the mate and even cannot find mate in 1 in the position:

white:ka8, pa7 black: kc8 Nd5

I believe crafty also cannot find mates in positions like these
It is not a question of tablebases because they believe that a player with only
a knight cannot win and they do not search for more than draw and if they find a
move that gives them a draw they do not check the other moves.

Uri



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