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Subject: Re: Mate in 16? ..see if your computer will solve it!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:04:34 02/16/01

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On February 16, 2001 at 16:57:11, Lin Harper wrote:

>   I've got Chessmaster8000 and Genius5. Both machines had no trouble
>   finding the winning line, but neither announced mate from the
>   starting position. Did Crafty announce mate from it's first move?
>   Did Deep Fritz?
>    My hardware is'nt slow... P4 1.3Ghz  128mb RDRam.

Yes

Crafty announced mate in the first move after less than a minute and it proves
that the software is more important than the hardware.

Uri



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