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Subject: Re: Nimzo displays ALL mates wrong! Kure can You explain?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:34:01 11/29/99

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On November 29, 1999 at 06:09:32, Jouni Uski wrote:

>On November 29, 1999 at 05:55:16, Alexander Kure wrote:
>
>>On November 29, 1999 at 01:29:49, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>I have Nimzo 7.32 and I am quite satisfied except one thing: It displays all
>>>mates too short. From Nalimov tablebase mate is 1 move too short. And normal
>>>search mates are also at least 1 move too short. Why?
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>
>>Hi Jouni,
>>
>>Display of number of moves until mate in Nimzo 7.32:
>>
>1) How can Crafty display correct values?
>


Crafty was right in the middle of the evolving winboard standard...  it has
always sent 'plies' for the mate/mated in N scores...  It announces mate in
the usual (mate in N moves) way, but it works internally with mate/mated in N
plies, which is what everyone wants...




>2) Nalimov is not handled correct, it's always -1 from correct. E.g. again
>Crafty shows always correct values. I have tested with some reference positions
>from Edwards
>statistics. Please test (sorry I haven't positions here now).
>Note if You are in multivariation display then mate in announced correct!
>
>Thanks for fast answer!
>
>Jouni



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