Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 12:10:48 12/27/00
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On December 27, 2000 at 13:28:31, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On December 27, 2000 at 12:32:45, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>First of all SJENG is a mate prover so let's forget sjeng. > >Either you are confusing me with CHEST, or you have bad memory. > >>Diep isn't a mate prover but a normal chessprogram. > >So is Sjeng. It has, however, a special matefinding search. >It is always enabled for suicide chess, but I also use it for >normal chess or crazyhouse sometimes. > >>It took indeed some 6 years of search experiments to get that far. > >It took me 2 evenings to implement it. Most of the theoretical >work had been done by Dutch (ironic isn't it?) researchers but >no-one had bothered to implement it for normal chess yet. > >>Note that this position was at the homepage from WEINERS company >>to promote if i'm right shredder2. >> >>Nowadays to my amazement shredder4 no longer finds it! >> >>dunno about shredder5. >> >>So if i were as ignorant as the majority of >>posters here: shredder got worse! > >They no longer overextend forced checking sequences. You still do. > >Oh and by-the-way...Sjeng without the matefinder finds the correct >move in +-170 nodes. > Yeah, well still, will someone tell me HOW?
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