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Subject: Re: Finding mate in N moves

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:48:01 01/10/02

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On January 10, 2002 at 05:45:28, Russell Reagan wrote:

>If I have a position and I want to find out if there is a forced mate, will I
>have better chances using something like Chessmaster's "Search for mate"
>feature, or by simply putting Fritz to work on the position for a few days?

If you're not interested in the shortest mate, just ChessMaster
in analysis mode (not 'search for mate') is probably the fastest.
(...except for Sjeng, of course :)

>Will a regular alpha-beta search miss any mates due to a pruned branch?

A _regular_ alpha-beta search won't, but nearly everybody uses
enhancements that might very well.

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GCP

• Re: Finding mate in N moves Robert Hyatt 11:28:04 01/10/02
  • Re: Finding mate in N moves Russell Reagan 12:04:37 01/10/02
    • Re: Finding mate in N moves Gian-Carlo Pascutto 01:50:23 01/11/02

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