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Subject: Re: Good Test Position, the "ply 16 rook sac"

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:35:08 09/21/00

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On September 21, 2000 at 16:08:48, Uri Blass wrote:

>I can add that the result of chessmaster8000 seems to be better than
>chessmaster6000 in finding the shortest mate but worse in finding a
>mate(chessmaster6000 found a mate in 20 in less than 20 minutes on pIII450).
>
>Chessmaster6000 needed more hours to see the mate in 13 and it could see it only
>at depth 6/16
>
>I cannot know the exact time because chessmaster6000 does not show the time in
>hours but only the number of minutes(for example if the time is 3:42:27 it is
>going to show only 42:27)
>
>I hope that this bug will be fixed in chessmaster8000
>
>Uri

That bug was fixed in Chessmaster 7000. One other note is that Chessmaster 8000
does not report X/Y in the depth anymore (at least, not in my Beta version). It
reports like most other engines, giving a single number for the depth.

jm



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