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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 16:03:51 08/10/00

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On August 10, 2000 at 16:43:44, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 10, 2000 at 16:17:47, Christoph Fieberg wrote:
><snipped>
>>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.

Frans probably starts to generate the opposite direction. Every program
has a worst case, but an hour for 1 ply is a bit long for 1 ply.

Diep is seeing a cool check, tries that first. Happens to be mate.

>Uri



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