Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:14:04 07/14/01
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On July 14, 2001 at 01:33:45, Sune Larsson wrote: >On July 14, 2001 at 00:01:18, James T. Walker wrote: > >>I just finished a 20 game match between Chess Tiger 14.0 and Junior 7 on 2 >>Athlon 900 TB's with 512M ram. Chess Tiger was leading by 9-5 after 14 games >>but the match ended in a 10-10 tie. (No playoff this time) >>Junior seems to have a serious problem as shown in this last game which Junior 7 >>won but not without difficulty. Junior 7 announced Mate in 7 on move 79 and >>mated on move 105 ?? That is rediculous! > > > Maybe a designer's choice?! So that, in this case, "mate in 7" should > read "mate in 7 VLM" (Very Long Moves)...;) > > Sune No. The mate in 7 is correct but there is no rule in chess that you have to mate in less moves so Junior simply does not care about choosing the best moves and choosing a move that leads to mate is enough for it. Uri
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