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Subject: Re: Mate in 4...... End Game Study..

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 14:51:20 06/01/03

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On June 01, 2003 at 15:53:29, John Merlino wrote:

>On June 01, 2003 at 13:19:22, Lar Mader wrote:
>
>>Fritz 8.0.0.23 finds mate in 7 in 0 seconds, depth of 10/27, on a P4 3.06Ghz.
>>
>>-= Lar
>
>That's fine, but it's actually a mate in 4....
>
>jm

I think it cannot be a good thing if a program is extremely fast in finding
mates.

The depth of the mate is of no practical importance, most often you don't even
need to know it is a mate to select the right move.

-S.



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