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Subject: Re: Chessmaster Perhaps no longer the Fastest Mate Finder?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 02:15:38 01/07/02

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On January 07, 2002 at 05:05:31, Jouni Uski wrote:

>On January 07, 2002 at 04:59:54, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On January 07, 2002 at 04:47:50, Will Bundy wrote:
>>>Hi
>>>
>>> In this position Fritz7a announces mate in 8 in 1 sec!!! I expected chessmaster
>>>to find it in the same amount of time, didn't happen.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2R2R2/5p2/p3p2p/4P1pk/7N/P5PP/5P1K/1q6 w - g6 id Fritz 7 - ; bm g3g4;
>>
>>I don't think you can reasonably draw any sensible conclusions from a single
>>position.  Try it on a couple hundred.  If it's faster with a large set of
>>positions, then your conclusion is likely to follow.  If not, then not.
>
>Yes it's very difficult to say anything sure! I have tactical test set with 200
>positions and still I cannot say sure, which program is the best in solving:
>Fritz, Tiger or Goliath. And "toy" programs like Chessmaster I haven't even
>tested.

The output of Chest319 for this problem:

[D]2R2R2/5p2/p3p2p/4P1pk/7N/P5PP/5P1K/1q6 w - g6 acn 18544563; acs 116; bm Rxf7
g4+; ce 32752; dm 8; pv g4+ Kxh4 Rh8 Qg6 Rcg8 Qh5 Rh7 f5 exf6ep e5 Rgh8 e4 Rxh6
e3 Rxh5#;



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