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

Author: Lars Sandin

Date: 15:41:59 08/16/00

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On August 16, 2000 at 17:48:20, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

How fast (approx.) does the program see longer mate-sequences; for instance in a
normal game - a mate in about 10 moves?





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