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Subject: Re: Why Tiger calls it Mate in 25?

Author: Chessfun

Date: 06:59:04 04/20/01

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On April 20, 2001 at 09:39:29, Paul wrote:

>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

I have the same as Paul 290 files.
Actually Dr. I downloaded all the 5 men them from your site. Thanks for that.
Paul what was the post? it isn't there now?. Email it?.


Sarah.




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