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Subject: Re: Mate in 16 mystery

Author: Dana Turnmire

Date: 07:33:23 09/04/03

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On September 04, 2003 at 10:30:51, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 04, 2003 at 10:20:40, Dana Turnmire wrote:
>
>>In the following position Chess Genius 7 cannot find mate after many hours of
>>analysing yet Chessmaster 9000 finds mate in 16 INSTANTLY.  What gives?
>>[d] 4r1r1/bB4p1/8/2p1kPKn/n7/3R4/3P4/2B5 w - -
>
>Movei is in the middle
>
>The developement version can see the mate in 16 but not instantly
>
> 12 9969 3462 6849879 d3d5 e5e4 d5d7 e4e5 c1a3 c5c4 a3d6 e5d4 d6f8 d4e5 d7d5 e5e
>4 d5d8 e4e5 d8e8 e5d4 e8d8 d4e5 d8d5 e5e4 d5d7 e4e5 f8d6 e5d4 d6b4 d4e5 d2d4 c4d
>3 d7e7 e5d4 e7e4
> 12 9969 3953 7808564 d3d5 e5e4 d5d7 e4e5 c1a3 c5c4 a3d6 e5d4 d6f8 d4e5 d7d5 e5e
>4 d5d8 e4e5 d8e8 e5d4 e8d8 d4e5 d8d5 e5e4 d5d7 e4e5 f8d6 e5d4 d6b4 d4e5 d2d4 c4d
>3 d7e7 e5d4 e7e4
>
>A previous version that is slightly better because it is faster in nodes per
>second says:
>
> 12 9969 2637 7316683 d3d5 e5e4 d5d7 e4e5 c1a3 c5c4 a3d6 e5d4 d6f8 d4e5 d7d5 e5e
>4 d5d8 e4e5 d8e8 e5d4 e8d8 d4e5 d8d5 e5e4 d5d7 e4e5 f8d6 e5d4 d6b4 d4e5 d2d4 c4d
>3 d7e7 e5d4 e7e4
> 12 9969 2922 8114929 d3d5 e5e4 d5d7 e4e5 c1a3 c5c4 a3d6 e5d4 d6f8 d4e5 d7d5 e5e
>4 d5d8 e4e5 d8e8 e5d4 e8d8 d4e5 d8d5 e5e4 d5d7 e4e5 f8d6 e5d4 d6b4 d4e5 d2d4 c4d
>3 d7e7 e5d4 e7e4
>
>Uri

There is obviously some kind of defect in the evaluation function of Genius 7.
How else can this be explained?



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