Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 00:50:56 04/17/00
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On April 16, 2000 at 22:35:07, William Bryant wrote: >On April 16, 2000 at 03:15:58, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote: > >>- Screamer Chess Yes (<1 second) Freeware > >On my Computer, it found it in 0.010 seconds. > >> >>Screamer, while it sees the mate in less than 0.1 second, uses its >>full 3 minutes to think, then plays f8=N#, the move it looked at >>all along. > >My time management code needs some work. I have not yet implemented a >premature exit from the search based on the return score. > ><snip> Don't go overboard on that - it is a nice feature in general not to exit at the first mate found, but use the available time to try to find a shorter mate (MacChess 5.01 does this). However, when it is mate in one, you might as well exit. Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) http://dmoz.org/Games/Board_Games/Chess/Software/Macintosh/
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