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Subject: Re: Cleaned ECM aka WACII revisited

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:02:09 09/23/01

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On September 23, 2001 at 08:54:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 23, 2001 at 05:29:51, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>
>>[D]2b3k1/p4ppp/7q/2Q5/8/P3r1P1/1r4BP/R3R1K1 b - - bm Bb7; id "ECM.1197";
>>
>>This one looks wrong.
>
>Nope...Bb7 is the fastest mate.

What is the importance of finding the fastest mate.
There are programs that stop to search when they find one mate and I do not see
it as important for games if they know to find a shorter mate in the next move.

It is also possible that Bb7 is a draw by the 50 move rule when Rxg2+ is not a
draw by the 50 move rule so if I get the position without knowing the history I
am going to prefer Rxg2+

Uri



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