Author: William Kerr
Date: 16:19:58 10/17/03
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On October 17, 2003 at 18:47:38, William Kerr wrote: >Hi Uri > >I know chess egines that have special code to solve mates will solve the mates >in short order in their mate finder mode. And Chest specializes in mates. Its >great that Chest or an engine with a mate finder can solve a mate in 4 on a 3 >Ghz machine in 0.00000001 seconds but thats not the point. Some engines with or >without null move solve these mates very quickly, others take a relativly long >time. A program that take a long time one one problem solves the next quickly >and visa-versa. I'm not picking on any particular program. > >Bill Truth be known when I want a chess engine to analyze a chess a position (mate or otherwise) I choose YacePdb, Ruffian 1.0.x, crafty, Chessmaster 9000 and others. Chessmaster is legondary solving mates, but YacePdb and Ruffian can also find deep mates faster than most. Bill
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