Author: blass uri
Date: 13:34:16 06/18/00
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On June 18, 2000 at 12:00:08, Ed Schröder wrote: >On June 18, 2000 at 10:36:40, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On June 18, 2000 at 10:17:08, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>>According Rebel it is a mate in 10. >>> >>>Ed >>> >>>00:00 07.00 0.81 1.Rxh5 gxh5 2.Rxh5 Kf8 3.Rxh7 Ke8 4.Rh8+ Kd7 5.Qf5+ Kc7 >>>00:01 08.00 2.37 1.Rxh5 gxh5 2.Rxh5 Kf8 3.Rxh7 Ke8 4.Qf5 Kd8 5.Qxf7 Kc8 >>>6.Qxe7 >>>00:03 09.00 2.47 1.Rxh5 gxh5 2.Rxh5 Kf8 3.Rxh7 Ke8 4.Qf5 Kd8+ 5.Qxf7 Kc7 >>>6.Qxe7+ Kc8 >>>00:43 10.00 11.74 1.Rxh5 gxh5 2.Rxh5 Kf8 3.Rxh7 e6 4.Bf6 Ke8 5.dxe6 Qxc4+ >>>6.Qxc4 >>>02:35 11.00 Mate in 10 moves 1.Rxh5 Kf8 Rxh7 2.Ke8 Rxf7 3.Qxc4 Qxc4 4.g5 Rhh7 >>>5.b5 Rxe7+ 6.Kd8 >> >>I find it interesting to notice that even Rebel has some trouble with this, >>taking more than 10 times as much time to resolve the 10th ply. > >That's pretty normal whith such big score differences (2.47 -> 11.74) as >search is confrontated with big score fluctuations which causes move >ordering to collapse. I wouldn't bother too much about it, it's quite >normal. Not for all programs. Chessmaster6000(ss=10) can see a forced mate in only 4 seconds and does not have a big branching factor This is normal for chessmaster to see mates clearly faster than other programs and I think that this is because the other programs do some mistakes in their search rules. Uri
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