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Subject: Re: In special mate searching mode or normal?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:48:20 08/16/00

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On August 16, 2000 at 17:35:44, Jari Huikari wrote:

>On August 16, 2000 at 17:23:33, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Took 2 seconds to solve the hardest two.  The other took one second.  The
>>machine was not a very fast one.  On one of the fast machines, it would probably
>>do a lot better.
>
>Was the program searching especially for mates?

Chest 3.19 by Heiner Marxen (the best mate solver on the planet by a landslide).

>How much time would need
>to find the moves, if these positions were in normal game?

Infinite.  It does not play chess, since it's just a mate solver.  On the other
hand, on a multithreading machine, you could have the mate solver buzzing away
in its own little thread while your chess engine is playing chess in a normal
fashion.  Then, if the mate solver sees something interesting, it could report
it to the chess engine.  It is actually an idea I have been entertaining, and
incredibly simple to implement.




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