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Subject: Re: First mate in 2, then mate in 3, am I missunderstangin A-B?

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 08:53:29 03/03/03

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On March 03, 2003 at 11:26:36, Albert Bertilsson wrote:

>Hmm... that might be it, since the opponent move sacrificed the own Queen and
>only delayed the mate with one full move.
>
>But I still have a tough time to understand this...

In fact it was me, who was confusing things. See my reply to Uri.
One reason for the behavior of your engine may be that you stop search whenever
finding a mate - instead of searching fr a shorter one ?

Uli

>I see the A-B as searching for the best moves you can find, the next ply it
>searches for the best move the opponent can do (and loosing a Queen is better
>than an early mate) so why didn't my program also realize that the opponent
>would rather sacrifice the queen than face defeat?
>
>/Regards Albert



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