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Subject: Re: You lose :)

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 08:08:23 04/20/02

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On April 20, 2002 at 10:50:04, Uri Blass wrote:

>I do not think it is a win when you do not use the version that plays best.

This is the best playing version that still has matesolving code. If
I were interested, I could put it in the latest versions and solve it
even faster, but I'm not, because I think it would be a waste of time.

The ability to solve forced mates quickly doesn't say much about chessplaying
ability.

Ed didn't say anything about the conditions, and posted a bunch of
mate in x position. So I guess the idea is to see who can find the mates
the fastest. My program has a matefinding mode, so I used that.

If I wanted even faster times, I could have tried different settings
on each position and possibly get even faster results, but I didn't,
because I think the results were good enough.

>I guess that if the target is to solve mate then Ed could also develop a better
>program.

He is free to try.

I already challenged Johan De Koning to make a better crazyhouse program once,
but he wasn't interested.

--
GCP



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