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Subject: Re: Unusual mate in 4 :) (For Norm Pollock)

Author: Andreas Stabel

Date: 05:54:52 03/08/06

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On March 03, 2006 at 10:05:57, Norm Pollock wrote:

>On March 03, 2006 at 08:02:11, Andreas Stabel wrote:
>
>>On March 03, 2006 at 07:44:43, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>
>>>      Why unusual ??
>>>      Best regards
>>>      Kurt
>>
>>Because the final mate is with what a lot of engines consider insufficient
>>material - see the thread "Unusual mate in 3".
>>
>>By the way - this happened to me once I played on FICS. I thought I had the
>>possibility of achieving such a mate, but the interface made a draw.
>>I was pretty pissed :(
>>
>>Regards
>>Andreas
>
>Hi Andreas,
>
>It's been a long time since I've seen you post here. I wanted to ask you about
>your pgn utility called "join". Can I share my copy with others and is it
>publicly available? It is a great utility. Any others btw?
>
>-Norm

Hi,

I'm here most of the time, but I don't post very much - I'm too lazy to write.

The join utility is just something I wrote to get some (to me) interessting
statistics and experiment with some ideas.
You may distribute the program to anybode and you may have the sources too
if you want - though they are pretty messy.

By the way - by using this program I have proven to myself at least, that the
average branching factor is not 38 which is commonly accepted here, but
approximately 31. This I have got after scanning millions of games, so I would
say that the number is pretty accurate.

I have posted this here, but nobody seems to take me seriously - this error is
too well established.

Regards
Andreas



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