Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 16:57:25 01/19/00
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On January 19, 2000 at 18:20:20, Mark Young wrote: >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! Didn't you force Rebel into that? It didn't go into that ending intentionally, did it? bruce
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