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Subject: Re: Mate in 23 announced without tablebase or without proper ply depth?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:48:38 07/23/99

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On July 23, 1999 at 16:54:40, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 23, 1999 at 16:45:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>[snip]
>>The deepest I saw was in a KNNKP ending where Ferret announced a mate in 104
>>(I think).  Crafty later hit one of those that was a mate in 1 less, but it
>>hasn't broken Bruce's record yet...
>Has anyone done a TB search through the 5 piece set to find the most distant
>certain mate in the entire collection?
>
>I bet it would be an interesting piece of trivia.


Eugene can answer, but I believe that in one KPPKP ending it is _real_ close
to 127 (It just barely squeaked into his one-byte value, if I recall our
discussion from before...

those two knnkp endings are a ways away from that, but in the same ballpark.



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