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Subject: Re: a mate to solve

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 19:18:36 10/09/01

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On October 09, 2001 at 22:12:02, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

An interesting truth:

Of the 2 chess programs that can find the mate in 10;

1 cannot play chess

and

the other isn't in the top 20 of the SSDF rating list.


Weird.



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