Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 04:11:23 11/15/02
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On November 14, 2002 at 18:17:34, Olaf Jenkner wrote: >>>Mate in 10 took 3 hours 20 minutes. The estimation is that >>>I have to wait about 20 days. I used a 1.533 GHz Athlon.. >> >>Chess is not mate in 12. >> >>I use my mind and not your stupid program. >>I can tell you even that it is not mate in 20. >> >>Uri > >You may call it stupid, but perhaps it is the >first prove that white can not mate in 11. > I should think that Chest has proved this a long time ago, and faster. Besides, one can make a clean alpha-beta search with material-only evalutation and prove that there is no forced material gain, let alone a forced mate, in a lot more than 11 moves. /David
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