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

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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