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Subject: Unusual Mate in 3

Author: Charles Roberson

Date: 21:26:08 03/01/06


  Came across this position by accident browsing chess club web sites.
  It comes from the Duke University Chess Club. The position is
  1r5k/4NP1b/7K/8/6R1/8/8/8 w - - 0 1

  Telepath found the mate in 4 but could not find the mate in 3.
  After some debugging I found out why!!!

  Just before the final ply in the mate in 3, Telepath announced insufficent
  material which is true. But in this position you can mate with insufficient
  material.

  It put such a smile on my face, I had to share it.

  Maybe some of you have the same logic flaw in your code.

Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Jay Urbanski 18:51:30 03/02/06
Re: Unusual Mate in 3 George Tsavdaris 14:12:56 03/02/06
- Re: Unusual Mate in 3 John Merlino 14:57:55 03/02/06
- Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Gerd Isenberg 14:26:41 03/02/06
  - Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Charles Roberson 16:12:28 03/02/06
Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Roman Hartmann 13:30:09 03/02/06
Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Alessandro Scotti 09:38:05 03/02/06
Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Will Singleton 09:06:24 03/02/06
- Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Charles Roberson 09:09:04 03/02/06
  - Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Will Singleton 09:16:51 03/02/06
Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Robert Hyatt 08:32:26 03/02/06
- Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Charles Roberson 09:02:16 03/02/06
  - Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Robert Hyatt 11:09:18 03/02/06
Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Thomas Mayer 04:29:46 03/02/06
- Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Robert Hyatt 08:33:36 03/02/06
  - Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Thomas Mayer 12:27:17 03/02/06
Re: Unusual Mate in 3 -> Hiarcs 10 have the same bug Vincent Lejeune 00:52:22 03/02/06
- Re: Unusual Mate in 3 -> Hiarcs 10 have the same bug Andreas Guettinger 01:07:35 03/02/06
  - Re: Unusual Mate in 3 -> Hiarcs 10 have the same bug Andreas Guettinger 13:21:45 03/02/06
  - Re: Unusual Mate in 3 -> Hiarcs 10 have the same bug Andreas Guettinger 13:20:44 03/02/06
Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Terry McCracken 22:01:17 03/01/06
- Re: Unusual Mate in 3 Typo Terry McCracken 22:03:48 03/01/06

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