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Subject: Re: The Corbit 16 ply challenge

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:34:14 09/26/00

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On September 26, 2000 at 14:37:07, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 26, 2000 at 06:46:18, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I hope that it can see mate at depth<16 in order to prove again that the depth
>>is not important.
>
>
>I think there is no mate there. I ran my matefinder on that position
>for over 500M nodes and it showned no sign of converging yet.
>
>Of course the position eventually leads to a mate, but it may be
>over 40 ply away, or something, at least nearly inpossible to
>pin down to a variant.
>
>(I hope the position is indeed the one I tested, I can't
>verify since the data is currently on a computer 15Km away
>without an internet connection)
>
>--
>GCP

I tend to agree.
I also did not find mate with chessmaster6000 and stopped to analyze it.
Proving the mate seems to be above the ability of human+program

did you try your mate solver in the previous positions when chessmaster found
forced mate?

Is it faster than chessmaster6000?

Uri



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