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Subject: Re: Nobody's perfect - Shredder7.04 announces mate in 0 !?

Author: John Boyd

Date: 17:21:30 05/13/03

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On May 13, 2003 at 07:31:32, Uri Blass wrote:

>On May 13, 2003 at 07:13:55, John Boyd wrote:
>
>>On May 13, 2003 at 00:56:49, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>[D]5bk1/p3p1p1/p3P1P1/p7/p7/8/P7/5K2 w - -
>>>
>>>This is one of my oldest test positions with mate in 17 (Ke2). It's still
>>>unsolved by top pros, but Yace and Crafty can solve it. Interestingly
>>>Shredder7.04 first says mate in 22 and then mate in 0 (#0) !?!?
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>My engine (TRACE 1.1.2) running on a P3-600 finds Ke2 Mate16 in less than a
>>second...  at least its good for one thing... :-)
>
>I forgot to say that not exactly.
>
>It is mate in 17 so your engine is not so good if it can see mate in 16 that
>does not exist.
>
>Uri

You are right Uri.

My 1.1.3 Alpha version finds Ke2 in 0.3 secs and agrees with you that its Mate
in 17 after 3 seconds.  I fixed the popular bug of storing mate scores in the
hashtable relative to the remaining search depth. It should be relative to the
position.

Ross






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