Author: John Merlino
Date: 15:55:37 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? > >Will a regular alpha-beta search miss any mates due to a pruned branch? > >Russell I would either use Chessmaster's "Thinking Lines" window (with the "Chessmaster" checkbox turned on -- assuming you are using Chessmaster 8000) or Chest, which is a program specifically written for finding mates. With both of those at your disposal, you should have very little difficulty finding a mate if one exists (and is short enough). jm
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