Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:14:04 04/21/04
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On April 21, 2004 at 09:11:03, Russell Reagan wrote: >On April 20, 2004 at 14:28:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I verified that in the "Chess Skill in Man and Machine." Unfortunately, someone >>ran off with my "Basic Chess Endings" book many years ago so I can't find out >>what Fine offered as analysis... > >This is the only analysis Fine gives. I don't see anything about it taking 30 >moves (or any number of moves). > >1. Kb1 Kb7 2. Kc1 Kc7 3. Kd1 Kd7 4. Kc2 Kd8 5. Kc3 Kc7 6. Kd3 > >Alternatively: 3... Kc8 4. Kd2 Kd7 5. Kc3 Kc7 6. Kd3 > >"and black is lost because he cannot keep the opposition." Makes sense to me. I don't know where Monty got 30 plies. But at least we now know it is a 26 ply deal as verified by at least two programs with no hashing to skew things...
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