Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:28:04 01/10/02
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On January 10, 2002 at 05:48:01, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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. > >-- >GCP And many will find longer mates first as they may be more obvious (ie a long sequence of checks, vs a few quiet moves followed by a couple of checks).
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