Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:07:43 01/20/01
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On January 20, 2001 at 08:40:31, John Wentworth wrote: >Has anyone else seen programs annouce a Mate in X number of moves only to have >it repeat it the several times, or be just wrong all together. I have Hiarcs >7.32 and it does this frequently, it's like it can't count or it's not seeing >everything it should. If I remember correctly, other programs I used to play did >not have this problem. It is typical to chess programs. A lot of chess programs do not know to count correctly and I remember cases when old Fritz version said mate in X when it was practically longer mate. The programmers target was to teach programs to play chess and not to teach them to count. Uri.
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