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Subject: Re: What does your chess engine think of this simple mate?

Author: leonid

Date: 16:24:36 03/17/03

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On March 17, 2003 at 18:02:22, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 17, 2003 at 17:39:02, leonid wrote:
>
>>On March 17, 2003 at 16:25:08, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>k5q1/2q5/8/8/7q/3q4/6PP/q5NK w - - acn 18; acs 0; ce -32763; pv h3 Qhxh3+ gxh3
>>>Qgxg1#;
>>
>>If I understood correctly and first move if for white side, then response is
>>instant. After each of three possible white moves, black side make instant mate.
>>LLchess mate solver on Celeron 600Mhz.
>
>Chest solves it instantly too.  I saw some peculiar results when I ran regular
>chess engines against it (especially odd are some engines that keep searching
>long after it is pointless to continue forward -- probably a null move effect).

Chest have no problems with this kind of positions. I tried many mates with it
and program was always excellent. Only some other programs (chess programs) do
have all kind of problems (when one side have too much material), including some
mate solvers.



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