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Subject: Re: It is amazing how fast a P.C program finds this winning line !

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:04:18 12/28/01

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On December 28, 2001 at 14:35:01, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On December 28, 2001 at 14:32:22, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On December 28, 2001 at 14:00:11, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>>
>>>On December 28, 2001 at 10:40:05, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>White to play and win:
>>>>
>>>>http://www.chessbase.com/puzzle/puzzle9/puzz9-4a.htm
>>>
>>>[D]2B3K1/8/3N1p1p/6pk/5P1P/6P1/7r/5r2 w - - 0 1
>>>
>>>1.Ne8 1-0 Below is the analysis by CT-14 on my old 333 PII with 96Mb RAM
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>00:00:00.4	0.52	9	37271	Nf5 Kg4 Ne3+ Kf3 Nxf1 Rf2 Ba6 gxf4 gxf4 Kxf4 Kg7
>>>00:00:01.1	1.24	10	95642	Nf5 Kg4 Ne3+ Kf3 Nxf1 Rc2 Bb7+ Kf2 Ba6 gxf4 gxf4
>>>00:00:02.2	0.60	11	216973	Nf5 Kg4 Ne3+ Kf3 Nxf1 Rf2 hxg5 hxg5 Bb7+ Kg4 Ne3+ Kxg3
>>>fxg5 fxg5 Kg7
>>>00:00:04.2	2.14	11	365618	Ne8
>>>00:00:05.5	 Mate in 6	11	470406	Ne8 Kg6 h5+ Rxh5 f5+ Rxf5 g4 Re5 Bf5+ Rxf5 Ng7
>>>Rh2 gxf5#
>>
>>Even more astonishing is that Chest 3.19 thinks it is a mate in 7, not in 6.
>>Since a quick observation shows that CT has the right PV, we can only assume
>>that it is a matter of simple arithmetic.  Takes Chest 3 seconds to solve it.
>>
>>2B3K1/8/3N1p1p/6pk/5P1P/6P1/7r/5r2 w - - acn 293540; acs 3; bm Ne8; ce 32754; dm
>>7; pv Ne8 Kg6 h5+ Rxh5 f5+ Rxf5 g4 Re5 Bf5+ Rxf5 Ng7 Rh4 gxf5#;
>
>
>I know at least one of the major engines counts number of moves to mate
>differently than usual.  It's as if it is saying "after this first move, it's
>mate in 6 MORE moves."

Better not hire the programmer as an accountant.
;-)



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