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Subject: Re: An endgame tablebase puzzle ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:13:20 02/11/04

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On February 11, 2004 at 13:07:06, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On February 11, 2004 at 12:29:18, Gordon Rattray wrote:
>
>>I was recently browsing a summary file for endgame tablebases, from Robert
>>Hyatt's site.  For KQQQ (White) vs KB (Black), it claims that there is 1 drawn
>>position with White to move.  But it's quite a puzzle to figure out what that 1
>>position actually is.  I'm assuming this figure of 1 takes into account symmetry
>>(rotations and reflections), so there will be multiple "real" board solutions
>>all based on the same structure.
>>
>>I've not yet solved it.  Can anyone here figure it out?  Or can it somehow be
>>obtained from the associated TB files?
>>
>>If nothing else, I'd just like to check that I'm reading into the summary data
>>correctly! :-)
>>
>>cheers
>>
>>Gordon
>
>[D]/////k/2Qb/1QKQ/ w
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene

correct Fen and diagram

[D]8/8/8/8/8/k7/2Qb4/1QKQ4 w - - 0 1



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