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Subject: Re: Mate in 1 - but Fritz 6 needs 1 hour!!!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:43:44 08/10/00

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On August 10, 2000 at 16:17:47, Christoph Fieberg wrote:
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>Unbelievable, but true:
>I composed a position which is mate in 1 and can easily found, but Fritz6 on
>Pentium III, 500 Mhz and 32 MB Hash needs more than 1 hour to show it (excatly
>1:03:17)!!!
>How do other computers react?

Fritz6 is a slow searcher.

Fast searchers like Hiarcs7.32 need less than 1 second pm p200 to see the mate).

Seriously,
I guess that fritz is confused by the number of possible captures in the
position and does a lot of capture extensions.

Uri



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