Author: Paul
Date: 06:39:29 04/20/01
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On April 20, 2001 at 09:01:53, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Hi Bob, Just made a little dos program that loops through all my (290) etb-files to add up the total size; I get: 7580348624, which is exactly what w98 says, and if you divide that by 1024^3 you get 7.05 GB ... or ~7,402,684 kB. Strange? Groetjes, Paul
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