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Subject: Re: Fritz in Zugzwang...and funny tablebase handling?

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 23:03:28 04/17/01

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On April 17, 2001 at 22:45:10, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:

>
>Why doesn't it prefer the shortest solution, while tablebases are enabled? Does
>it choose the move ramdonly if there are more than one "way" to mate? What about
>the time remaining in the clock, does it influence the engine's option for a
>variation?
>
>A. Ponti



It did not find the shortest solution because it stopped thinking before it
could find it.

And it stopped thinking because it had found a mate, and one additional ply of
search did not find a shorter one.



    Christophe



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