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Subject: Re: RE: Endgame (EGTB) study with castling

Author: Olaf Jenkner

Date: 09:56:04 11/28/01

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>bad order of moves
>I believe that it may be better to use some short search to find the best move
>based on only material evaluation.
>
>You are going to find that 0-0-0+ is better than d8N
>proving that white has a forced mate by 0-0-0(you do not need to find the
>shortest mate for this purpose) is doable in a few minutes and it means that
>chest can replace 99.9961% of the time by few minutes and solve the problem in
>few minutes after you improve the program.

This is not doable because he has to search until mate.
If after 1.Kb7 the mate comes after 15 moves, he has to search the
bad move 1....d8N until the depth of 14.

Olaf Jenkner



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