Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:01:53 04/20/01
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On April 19, 2001 at 23:34:48, Chessfun wrote: >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. 7.05 sounds wrong. I get this: 7411980 and I _know_ I have all the 3-4-5 piece files there...
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