Author: Michel Langeveld
Date: 08:39:30 02/04/04
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On February 03, 2004 at 23:50:23, Ed Trice wrote: >Gentlemen, > >Your endgame database code is running flawlessly on my system now. Thanks to >Eugene for providing an excellent framework and Marc for doing an amazing job on >modifying this code to get it to work for Gothic Chess! > >http://www.GothicChess.org/databases.html will show the progress as I have time >to update. > >Some interesting results reported so far: > >Two Knights vs. Pawn can mate in 92! > >Archbishop vs. Bishop can mate in 72. > >Rook + Bishop vs. Rook wins much faster in Gothic Chess than regular chess (mate >in 32 is longest as opposed to mate in 65 for 8x8 chess.) > >Queen + Pawn vs. Queen is a killer mate in 269!! That is 537 plies! > >Thanks again to you both. > >--Ed 269? This is longer as the longest known chessmate, isn't it? I am curious how KNBK will work out this time, will it be a mate in 39 or mate in 40. I will check the database page regurly. All the best, Michel
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