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Subject: Re: King Night Bishop - 50 Moves

Author: Steve Coladonato

Date: 11:13:21 04/23/99

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On April 23, 1999 at 13:52:03, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On April 23, 1999 at 13:20:11, Steve Coladonato wrote:
>
>>
>>On April 23, 1999 at 12:14:46, Steven J. Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>On April 22, 1999 at 14:45:19, Steve Coladonato wrote:
>>>
>>>>I haven't seen any documentation on this in recent books but back in the 70's
>>>>there was quite a bit available.  Unfortunately, I don't have any of those old
>>>>books around.  I think the basic mates were as follows:
>>>>
>>>>KQ v K - 9 moves
>>>>KR v K - 12 moves
>>>>KBB v K - 20 moves
>>>>KNB v K - 34 moves
>>>
>>>KQK: 10
>>>KRK: 16
>>>KBBK: 19
>>>KBNK: 33
>>>
>>>-- Steven
>>
>>Can you tell me where you got these values from?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Steve
>
>Probably from his distance-to-mate tablebases.  Before there were Nalimov
>tablebases, there were Edwards tablebases. :-)
>
>Dave


Dave,

Thanks for the clue.  Computer chess is really new to me and I don't know all
the players.

Steve



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