Author: James Robertson
Date: 07:52:14 01/15/00
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On January 15, 2000 at 03:41:15, blass uri wrote: >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. You think it would be easier to find a mate in 8 than a mate in 15. James > >Uri
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