Author: Uri Blass
Date: 19:12:02 10/09/01
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On October 09, 2001 at 21:26:54, Slater Wold wrote: >On October 09, 2001 at 20:09:51, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On October 09, 2001 at 19:52:47, Slater Wold wrote: >> >>>>None of these searches found a mate in ten. So far, chest is the only tool that >>>>found it (IIRC). >>> >>> >>>In how long?? >> >>Chest used 15961 seconds on p200 to find the mate in 10 and it should be >>translated to less than 1 hour on fast hardware. > >That's _very_ respectable. > >> >>Unfortunately there are programs that have no chance to find it in an hour >>because they stop to search when they find a mate. > >Yes. I cannot use ANY Chessbase engine, they stop when they find the first >mate. > >> >>The smartest program in finding mates based on my experience is chessmaster >>but I am not sure if it can find the mate in less than an hour because I believe >>that this is not the kind of the mate that it likes(it likes more mates when >>there are more pieces in the board). > >I agree. But I don't have ChessMaster installed. > >> >>I did not test chessmaster so I may be wrong. > >I think it could find mate. In how long might be another story. You are right Here are chessmaster6000(ss=10) results on pIII850 depth 6/11 2:51 mate in 14 depth 7/12 5:28 mate in 12 depth 8/13 9:29 mate in 11 depth 9/14 22:51 mate in 10 Uri
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