Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:30:00 04/18/98
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On April 17, 1998 at 18:29:29, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>On today's rgcc a posting told about a mate in 16 solved by MChess in
>4:31 (Pentium II 266, 60 Megs of hash), but "improved" on some time
>later with an incorrect annoucement as a mate in 15. The position is
>k7/2K2p2/p3p3/P2PP1P1/2p5/1p5p/2P5/8 w - - and the first move is 1.g6!
>I tested some of my programs with the following results:
>CM5500 - solves this with a mate in 16 announcement instantly (!), my
>commercial Rebel 8 cannot solve it within a 3 minute span, but all the
>engines within "Rebel X" solve it instantly (!!! - Rebel Decade 2, Rebel
>7, 8, 9), Junior and Hiarcs do see the right move but do not announce
>the mate. How about other programs?
>
>Regards,
>
>Djordje
Chess Tiger running on K5-100MHz, 16Mb hash, would play g6 in 191s,
announces mate in 16 in 237s, and then announces mate in 15 in 265s (I
stopped it at that point).
Christophe
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