Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 11:05:28 04/18/01
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On April 18, 2001 at 02:03:28, Christophe Theron wrote: >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. > There is something inelegant about this, but on the other hand, it nearly always occurs in positions where the opponent should resign. One problem that might occur is if the tablebase mate allows a draw by the 50 move rule, e.g. some KBBkn.
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