Author: Mark Young
Date: 15:20:20 01/19/00
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On January 19, 2000 at 17:51:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 19, 2000 at 15:29:06, Lonnie Cook wrote: > >>On January 19, 2000 at 13:14:39, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: >> >>>On January 19, 2000 at 12:39:22, Randy Schmidt wrote: >>> >>>>This is not so amazing.... >>>> >>>>There are many positions where a KNN vs. a kp are winning. >>>>The idea is that when the weaker side has to move the pawn, >>>>one can make progress with the knights. >>>> >>>>I recall FIDE even extending the 50-move rule to allow >>>>for this situation even giving a graph of where the pawn had >>>>to be behind... >>>> >>>>So you see, this is not that amazing :) >>>The Russian study composer Trotsky is the name here, >>>he established those graphs way back in the 30´s,IIRC. JAFM >> >>First X I seen it personally and I've been on ICC for about 3 years now. person >>who I talked to said it was first time he had seen this at such a high level, >>another person emailed me and said Ferret did it one time and announce mate in >>103 with tables but I had no tables with shredder > > >I have seen it at least a dozen times in Crafty's games, and at least once >(mate in 104) in one of Ferret's games vs another computer... It happened >vs a GM at least once (Junior on ICC). I know Ferret won this endgame against Rebel 9 when I was testing it on ICC. It was pretty cool!
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