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Subject: Re: Cadaqués Tournament Shredder 4 - Junior 6.0 Game 4

Author: blass uri

Date: 00:41:15 01/15/00

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On January 15, 2000 at 01:19:48, Len Eisner wrote:

>In the following position Junior 6 plays 88…Rd3+ which wins (mate in 15), but
>the simple g4 wins much faster (mate in 8).  Why do the tablebases prevent
>Junior from finding the fastest mate?
>
>[D]6k1/8/8/6p1/b2K4/r7/8/8 b - - 0 88
>
>Len

1)Junior has not the KRBP vs K tablebases.

2)Finding the fastest mate is not important for winning games so the programmers
do not care about it.

Junior plays the first mate it finds by search and not the fastest mate.

Uri

• Re: Cadaqués Tournament Shredder 4 - Junior 6.0 Game 4 James Robertson 07:52:14 01/15/00
  • Re: Cadaqués Tournament Shredder 4 - Junior 6.0 Game 4 Ernst Walet 10:04:28 01/15/00
    • Re: Cadaqués Tournament Shredder 4 - Junior 6.0 Game 4 James Robertson 10:33:31 01/15/00
      • Re: Cadaqués Tournament Shredder 4 - Junior 6.0 Game 4 blass uri 10:37:11 01/15/00

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