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Subject: Re: King Night Bishop - 50 Moves

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 13:15:53 04/23/99

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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?

He calculated them.  These endings have been solved via retrograde analysis.

bruce



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