Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 14:49:52 07/29/01
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On July 29, 2001 at 15:44:57, Uri Blass wrote: >On July 29, 2001 at 15:29:36, Heiner Marxen wrote: > <snipped> >>Ha! According to Chest this is a mate in 8 :-) > >I understand that there is only one solution >Am I right? Yes, you are right. Sorry for not stating it explicitly. Chest always computes all key moves (even when producing EPD), and I therefore give all PVs by default. >Note that I did not give chessmaster more than 15 minutes so I am not going to >be surprised if chessmaster6000 can solve it faster. I agree. >I expect chessmaster to solve it faster if it is not a null move problem and I >do not believe that it can be a null move problem with so many pieces on the >board but I am not going to give chessmaster many hours to calculate this >position. I also do not expect any null move problem to appear here, although there are some relatively quiet moves involved. The board is just too crowded. And CM found a mate in 9... that is good enough. Cheers, Heiner
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