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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:55:24 07/24/99

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On July 24, 1999 at 10:26:31, blass uri wrote:

>
>On July 23, 1999 at 16:45:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>
>>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...
>
>Did Ferret win this game or drew by the 50 move rule?
>
>Uri

won.  It is _very_ difficult to play the 104-move mate...  It went from 104 to
70 to 40 to 30 over 4-8 moves...  so the 50 move rule never came into being a
problem.. plus the normal mating plan requires that a couple of pawn pushes
be done anyway...



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