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

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 18:37:13 08/10/00

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On August 10, 2000 at 19:03:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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

Ahh,so Diep belives in the always check, it might be mate proverb?  Or does it
follow the Patzer see a check, patzer play a check proverb?  :))



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