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Subject: Re: The 16 ply challenge restated

Author: walter irvin

Date: 15:07:24 09/14/00

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On September 14, 2000 at 16:31:12, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 14, 2000 at 15:55:55, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Here are a set of tough positions to search deeply.  Just finding a mate is not
>>good enough, uless you can *prove* it is the shortest mate.
>
>Finding a mate is good enough even if you cannot prove that it is the shortest
>mate.
>
>Doing mistakes of not finding the shortest mate is going to change nothing in
>rating points so I do not see the importance of it for normal chess programs
>that are not mate solvers.
>
>I do not see the point of searching to 16 plies.
>It is easy to search faster if you do more pruning.
>
>Uri

you said it uri in normal chess it is not going to make a diff if it finds the
shortest mate .



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