Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:39:07 04/17/03
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On April 16, 2003 at 20:01:19, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote: >On April 16, 2003 at 14:30:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >>No you can't. You _always_ have to search every move at the root. that is the >>_only_ node where you can make that statement. > >ob_nitpick: If the position is mate in 1, then you only need to search the >mating move. Sure, but in 50 games, exactly how many times will that happen? Against GM players it will happen _zero_ times. Because they will resign before getting mated on the move unless they blunder. :)
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