Author: Chessfun
Date: 20:34:48 04/19/01
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On April 19, 2001 at 21:00:50, Jeff Lischer wrote: >On April 19, 2001 at 10:23:47, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >> >>Somebody's confused somewhere. It is a mate in 26 starting with Ne4. IE >>counting Ne4, white needs exactly 26 moves to force mate. What's with all >>the other numbers these programs are getting??? > >I did some experimenting Tiger and it seems that Tiger rounds down! If the mate >is in 1 ply (or 0.5 moves) Tiger calls it Mate in 0. Tiger calls mate in 2 plies >(1.0 moves) Mate in 1. And so on. Since the position above is mate in 51 plies >(25.5 moves), Tiger calls it Mate in 25. :) > >I don't know about the other programs. You are correct Christophe has written on this here before. As for the others programs no idea why they had different #s to mate. I have all 3,4 and 5 men bases in one directory 7.05 GB. All programs ran for about one minute. Sarah.
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