Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 02:13:53 12/24/98
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On December 23, 1998 at 06:42:25, Nouveau wrote: >On December 23, 1998 at 04:27:45, Harald Faber wrote: > >>On December 23, 1998 at 04:02:06, Nouveau wrote: >> >> >>>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. :-) > >Thank you for your answer : I don't have the game here, but Hiarcs needed >something like 35 moves to mate MacChess, so everything is normal :o) > >Jeff For the KNB-K ending, Sigma Chess 4.01 Lite will play this game exactly (always best move) since it has a endgame tablebase for this (though you have to run the generator to create it). Sigma Chess is a free Macintosh chess program, at: http://users.cybercity.dk/~bst10651/
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