Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:49:04 12/20/01
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On December 20, 2001 at 16:42:29, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 20, 2001 at 16:00:09, Dieter Buerssner wrote: > >>On December 20, 2001 at 10:45:11, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>[Much snipped] >>>I think that this time I can say mate in at most 18 >>>in my next move even if my opponent declines the condition and >>>the only thing that I need to be careful is not to do >>>a mistake in writing the moves and not to be dead. >> >>It seems, that you trusted the scores of a certain program for the pawn endgame. >>What would happen, if there is was an horrible bug in that program, and the >>scores were wrong. Will the author be dead? >> >>Cheers, >>Dieter "still alive" Bürßner > >I also checked with another program before sacrificing the rook. >It did not see the mate but it saw a decisive score for black. > >The worst thing that I can imagine if yace is wrong is that I do a mate in more >moves because I also can see clearly the win for black and the only thing that I >cannot see without computer help is the distance to mate. > >Uri Note that yace changed it's mind from mate in X to mate in Y when Y>X in part of the cases after learning. I believe that in all of these cases there is a mate in at most X moves and my experience is that yace later see again a shorter mate than mate in Y. Uri
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