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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 03:53:42 12/01/99

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On November 29, 1999 at 23:02:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 29, 1999 at 12:38:36, Vincent Diepeveen 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
>>
>>If you get mated anyway who cares?
>>
>>The technical explanation is quite simple though: it's using w/dl egtb,
>>and i fully agree with the approach of using w/d/l. gonna use them
>>in DIEP too.
>>
>>It just say: "you're gonna get mated".
>>Whether i get mated in 11 or 12 moves, who cares ?
>
>
>If it has been 39 moves since the last pawn move or capture, _I_ care.  :)

That's a theoretical case that only happens if your program doesn't
want to advance. I have not seen man KNN KP games :)






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