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Subject: Re: hardware or software??

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 08:36:32 03/05/00

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On March 05, 2000 at 10:13:11, leonid wrote:

>On March 04, 2000 at 18:16:54, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>
>>On March 03, 2000 at 23:49:40, pavel wrote:
>>
>>>i was wondering if i need any additional hardware or software to save files in
>>>CDs or to save files from cds to harddisk? if its hardware what should? and if
>>>its foftware, can you pls name a good software? i am running pentium II 450mhz
>>>compaq presario.
>>>thanks for the help ;)
>>>
>>>ps, comet doesnt find a checkmate (quite easy) that almost all program find in
>>>less then 40 sec (junior 23sec). if anyone interested i can send the game, since
>>>i dont know how to post a diagram in this forum ;)
>>
>>	Just paste a fen string, and add a 'D' between brackets at the left. For
>>example:
>>
>>[D]6k1/6p1/8/4K1P1/8/7P/8/8 w - - 0 1
>
>Tried the position for mate 9 moves deep, white to go. No mate was found. Beyond
>this depth finding inevitable mate could be very often quit time expensive. If
>somebody will go farther, would like to know how many moves there are before the
>mate and how time it took. Please mention your game and your hardware.

Chest 3.19 (PIII/550 500MB hash) needs 731 seconds to show that there is
no mate in 16.  Note that chest 3.19 does not access any endgame tables.

There is some direct EG table access on the net.  I tried
http://chess.liveonthenet.com/chess/endings/
and it says: mate in 26 by Kf4.
Since that site states to use the Thompson's CDs (which are shortest
conversion if recall correctly), I'm not sure whether this is shortest mate.

Also, this was just an example position by José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba,
and most probably not the one, the original poster (pavel) wanted to
talk about.

Heiner

>Thanks,
>Leonid.



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