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Subject: Re: One easy mate to solve.

Author: Paul

Date: 11:41:42 11/15/01

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On November 15, 2001 at 14:31:59, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On November 15, 2001 at 14:07:13, Paul wrote:
>
>>Is there any known method of finding a shorter, or the shortest mate with
>>proof-number search after a mate has been found? Is any research being done in
>>that area that you know of?
>>
>
>A simple method would be, after confirming the initial mate, to
>simply set the proof and disproof numbers of any node of equal
>or greater depth than the mate already found to huge values (even
>those where there is a mate).
>
>This would guide the search away from longer mates.
>
>--
>GCP

Care to try that? :) I'm curious ...
Paul



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