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Subject: Re: Good test move

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:32:28 04/23/02

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On April 22, 2002 at 22:46:36, Keith Ian Price wrote:

>On April 22, 2002 at 20:37:04, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>>On April 22, 2002 at 20:21:19, John Merlino wrote:
>>>2:22	4/9	6.56	11182719	1.Qc3 Qxc3 2.Ne7+ Kh8 3.Nxg6+ fxg6
>>>					4.Rxh7+ Kxh7 5.Rg4 Rxf4 6.Rxf4
>>>					Qa1+ 7.Ke2 Qf1+ 8.Kxf1 Rf8 9.Rxf8
>>>					Nc6 10.Rf7
>>>
>>>jm
>>
>>That's impressive! Only 9plys! ChessMaster never ceases to amaze me with it's
>>ablities that involve mate or winning material or mate.
>>
>>Excellent!
>>
>>Terry
>
>Yes, but with only nine plies it has been searching for 2:22, and has 19 plies
>in the main variation. I think it has a different definition of depth 4/9 than
>other computer chess programs. I do agree that it is remarkable at finding mates
>in very quick times.
>
>kp

Yes, the first number is the brute force depth, and the second number is the
MINIMUM extension depth.

jm



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