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Subject: Re: Wrote too soon -- just got another one!

Author: Mike S.

Date: 04:56:13 06/04/02

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On June 03, 2002 at 19:58:24, John Merlino wrote:

>-------------------
>I like the chess problem. Such as how to kill a black king
>until to 3 ways? What the chessmaster 8000 can to do about
>the problem?, Because  i have The chessmaster 5500 can't do
>it, can do it but 4 ways or 5 ways not 3 ways.Thank's
>-------------------

I think what he refers to is, that a playing engine sometimes doesn't find the
shortest mate (#3), but finds a longer one (earlier) and sticks to it.

Computerchess newbies are often not aware that this is a common observation, and
why.

He would probably need a problem solver engine, or mate search especially for
chess problems...

Maybe The King can find the # in 3 when the selektivity is set to 0? But that
probably wouldn't work always, I assume.

Regards,
Mike Scheidl



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