Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:46:51 02/07/02
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On February 06, 2002 at 19:12:31, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 06, 2002 at 18:55:24, John Merlino wrote: > >>On February 06, 2002 at 18:12:11, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>[D]4k3/Q3p1Q1/1Q5B/Q1QN1NQ1/4QQ2/B2Q4/8/2R1KR2 w - - acd 4; acn 29; acs 0; bm >>>Nc7# Nd6# Nf6# Q5g6# Q7g6# Qaa4# Qab5# Qaxe7# Qbb5# Qbb8# Qbc6# Qbg6# Qc8# Qcb5# >>>Qcc6# Qcxe7# Qd8# Qdb5# Qea4# Qexe7# Qf8# Qfb8# Qg5xe7# Qg7xe7# Qg8# Qh5#; ce >>>32766; dm 1; pv Nd6#; >>> >>>I have found that some programs crash, and others think for minutes on this mate >>>in 1. >> >>Chessmaster solves it rather nicely (note the number of positions seen): >> >>Time Depth Score Positions Moves >>0:00 1/1 Mate01 1 1.Qg7xe7# > >Of course, ChessMaster does not really know how to handle EPD (you have to tell >it the color among other things.) > >ChessMaster does not keep the list of answers to check against, which is another >frequent cause of crashing in the other programs. (People will have a static >array of up to 10 answers or some such thing where they imagine it could never >be more than that). > >Which reminds me, it would be nice to add real EPD support to ChessMaster 9000 >for both input and output. > >Just a thought. > >I do have to give ChessMaster its "props" though -- it really knows how to solve >a mate well for a chess playing program. Chessmaster 8000 handles FEN positions just fine, assuming they are in a text file that you can "load". Which is, of course, a particularly clumsy way to do it, I'll admit. The next version is going to have copy/paste functionality for PGN and FEN. Full EPD support, though, such as handling all of the possibilities above, is not planned. jm
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