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Subject: Re: ChessMaster 5000 on Mac and KNB-K ending

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 01:27:45 12/23/98

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On December 23, 1998 at 04:02:06, Nouveau wrote:

>I have two completely different questions :
>
>1-I saw at the Mindscape homepage that there is a Mac version of
>CM5000...has anyone tested it ? Is it the same engine than the PC version ?
>How does it compare with Hiarcs6 ?

Don't know.

>2-I'm doing a match between Hiarcs6 and MacChess 5.0, and after a strange
>middle game they entered a KNB-K ending, and Hiarcs won. What is the theory
>on this ending ? Is it a practical win ? Or is it just MacChess that played
>it badly ?

It is won by best play in max. 34 moves AFAIK. So be careful with your moves not
to surpass the 50-move-rule. :-)



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