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Subject: Re: Not that amazing :)

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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