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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