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Subject: Re: computers announce mate in how many moves??

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 06:29:24 04/17/04

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On April 17, 2004 at 09:26:02, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On April 17, 2004 at 08:30:33, francis wrote:
>
>>
>>thankyou Joachim,
>>what would you expect in correspondence time controls?
>>
>>
>>>
>>>tournamend time controls: 7-9 in middlegame
>
> And if we are talking about Chessmaster, then you can expect mate
>announcements of even 15 or 16!
>
>>>
>>>12-250 in endgame (if TBs are involved)
>>>
>
>Do you know if this Mate in ~250 which i guess is KNNKP is a valid one?
>I mean it's a legal even if we apply the 50 move Rule?
>

no it'S not a valid one. The longest TBs-Mate is in KRNKNN with 254 moves iirc,
but thats too not a valid one. I do not know which are the longest valid ones.

regards Joachim
>
>>>regards Joachim



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