Author: Imran Hendley
Date: 19:15:50 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 20:06:00, John Merlino wrote: >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 I don't see the logic behind this. When it announces mate does it see the knight promotion? If so why does it promote to a Queen? And if when it announces mate it sees a Queen promotion, how can this be, because there is obviously no mate with a Queen. Do you know why this happens?
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