Author: Marc Bourzutschky
Date: 11:25:38 01/14/06
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On January 14, 2006 at 13:15:20, Mark Rawlings wrote: >On January 14, 2006 at 08:59:29, Marc Bourzutschky wrote: > >>kqnnkqn, while generally a draw, contains positions that require up to 282 moves >>to capture or mate. This brings it very close to the current record holder >>krrnkrr which requires up to 290 moves. kqnnkqb looks to be in third place now >>with 272 moves, but that database has not yet been verified. kqnnkqn took about >>8.5 days to generate on a 3.8 GHZ Pentium machine, using Yakov Konoval's >>program. >> >>Note that play after the capture on move 282 will not be the same as would be >>obtained from a Nalimov database, because the latter maximizes distance to mate >>rather than distance to mate or capture. > >So, in other words, if the Nalimov database was computed for this, it may be a >mate in greater than 288, however there would be a capture in < 282, if I >understand correctly? All we know is that for a Nalimov database the mate would be in >= 282 moves. If the mate is in > 282 moves, than there must be a capture in <= 282 moves. -Marc
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