Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Jeremy Lennert wrote on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 01:59 PM EST:If you're calculating mate #s based on your own variant chess laws instead of the orthodox ones, you should have stated that up front. And if your variant laws include removing the 50-move draw and making repetition illegal instead of a draw, then the numbers you are calculating are likely much closer to helpmate numbers than forced mate numbers. Eventually, ALL non-mate positions will be exhausted, and black will be forced to collude in his own checkmate by process of elimination. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID SOVEREIGN_P_Ts does not match any item.