Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 11:57:10 08/15/98
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On August 07, 1998 at 22:06:20, Danniel Corbit wrote: >On August 07, 1998 at 21:37:43, Steven J. Edwards wrote: > >>On August 07, 1998 at 17:07:39, Danniel Corbit wrote: >> >>>I know mate is possible in 4 ply. It would be interesting [to me] for you to >>>store all of your mate pathways. >> >>This is easily done, but it would have the effect of adding an additional ply of >>depth to the entire process. So there would be a big slowdown. >Perhaps a second experiment then. But consider the incredible value. You can >have a complete list of possible checkmates for every ply. I would _love_ to >have this as a database. > >If I had this to a depth of 60 [stop laughing] I would never be beaten. Not true. Just because you would have all the checkmates in the first 30 moves does not give you any information on the other variations in those first 30 moves. I would be interested in Steven's estimation of the total unique pathways for 60 ply though. I am assuming that all moves are legal. -- Komputer Korner
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