Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 19:04:30 11/09/99
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On November 09, 1999 at 18:42:24, Andrew Dados wrote: >Hello, Scott! > Bad news here: 2 Knignts can not mate lone King... You may have found some >positions where 2 N mate King+Pawn; not sure what is longest mate there, but >there are (KNN vs KP) positions where definetely more then 50 moves without >progress (moving a pawn or capture) is needed. As I remember fide adjusted 50 >move rule for this case (and some others) and allows now 150 moves with no >progress for KNN vs KP (correct me if I am wrong here). > >-Andrew- Black king h8, white king h6, white knight f6, white knight h4. White to move mates in one with Ng6#. It is not a forced mate, because black's previous move must have been Kg8-h8. He simply could have played Kg8-f8 or Kg8-f7 and avoided the mate. bruce
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