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

Author: James

Date: 14:22:44 09/21/00

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On September 21, 2000 at 16:35:08, John Merlino wrote:

>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
>Interesting, stuff.. could it be suggested that once mate is sen, the number of moves be displayed, while still crunching, and when a shorter mate is found that would be then displayed? currently the mate length is not shown until the move is made, .... thx
>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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