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Subject: Re: One mate to solve.

Author: leonid

Date: 13:17:28 08/11/01

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On August 11, 2001 at 11:49:15, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:

>
>>I think that number of moves could be problem for some programs. If my memory is
>>right, this position start with 106 legal moves. Many programs look only 100
>>moves wide.
>
>
>Is that so? What is the reason for this? Filling up hash tables to quick or
>making a search tree that is too big? I have no understanding of these program
>techniques, so I'm lost at this one.
>
>BTW my PC is 840MHz PIII and HT is set to 128Mb
>
>J.

No, simply majority of programs have 100 moves limite. This I  found only after
seeing carefully what Genius 4 and Rebel 100 indicate. It could be the same for
some other programs. Limite of 100 moves  could lead to the missing of some
simple solution.

Leonid.



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