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Subject: Re: Interesting Position Mate in 15

Author: John Merlino

Date: 17:06:00 01/11/00

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On January 11, 2000 at 03:11:42, m.d.hurd wrote:

>On January 11, 2000 at 03:07:19, m.d.hurd wrote:
>Correction :
>
>Fritz 6 solves this in seconds and keeps announcing the mate up to where it
>promotes to a knight then draws by three fold repitition.
>
>
>Start position
>
>[D] 8/8/8/2p5/1pp5/brpp4/1pprp2P/qnkbK3 w - - 0 1
>
>Regards
>
>Mike

Chessmaster falls into the same trap as Fritz (et. al.). It announced mate in 15
in 8 seconds (on a PII-450), and proceeded to promote to a queen for a 3-fold
draw.

But, if I take it past the knight promotion, it DOES work out the mate in 9 from
there.

jm

• Re: Interesting Position Mate in 15 Imran Hendley 19:15:50 01/11/00
  • Re: Interesting Position Mate in 15 John Merlino 09:09:08 01/12/00
    • Re: Interesting Position Mate in 15 m.d.hurd 10:41:29 01/12/00
      • Re: Interesting Position Mate in 15 Dan Newman 16:49:42 01/12/00
      • Re: Interesting Position Mate in 15 blass uri 11:35:40 01/12/00
        • Re: Interesting Position Mate in 15 Bernhard Bauer 06:10:41 01/13/00
          • Re: Interesting Position Mate in 15 Ernst A. Heinz 08:59:41 01/13/00

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