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Subject: Re: Mate search with Fritz 8

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 03:16:33 05/22/04

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On May 22, 2004 at 05:51:20, Angelo Ciavarella wrote:

>In the regular playing mode,Fritz finds a mate-in-10 in zero seconds.When I use
>the mate search,I do not see a box that enables you to specify how many moves to
>mate, and it ran for three hours without finding a solution.The engine shown is
>2.13(whatever that means).Am I doing something wrong?

No. In the mate searching mode the engine searches for every possible move, so
the solution time is much longer. I predict it will last another 3 hours and
more for a mate-search of 19 plies.

Helmut



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