Author: Paul
Date: 13:57:50 01/24/01
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On January 24, 2001 at 16:22:56, leonid wrote: >On January 24, 2001 at 11:43:03, Paul wrote: > >>On January 24, 2001 at 11:38:17, leonid wrote: >> >>>Are those forced mate positions came from chess championships? I doubt very >>>much. They are very good for fun and revision of code. They are useful. But I >> >>Most of the high mate ones: WM18, WM10, WM9, etc were from actual games ... >>but I haven't the time to check right now. > >Than it came to me as big surprise. It look as more probably that those mate >positions were found after the game, when some detailed and deep thinking was >possible. During the championship, when people have only some one or one half of >a minute to think (I actually don't know how long time usually each game take) >it is highly improbable that somebody will reach mate even at 9 moves. My guess >is that it should be mainly around 3 and 7 moves. I could be wrong. Aahh ... no you're probably right, I don't know if the players found the mates. Also, the games could have been between computerprograms! But above you asked if the positions were from championships, and I think they were :) Paul
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