Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 07:54:04 11/29/04
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On November 28, 2004 at 17:43:44, F. Huber wrote: >On November 28, 2004 at 17:17:30, John Merlino wrote: >... >>The King is undoubtedly the best mate solving engine available, sometimes being >>even faster than programs dedicated to these kinds of problems. > >Yes, ´sometimes´ might be correct. ;-) > >But ´undoubtedly´ is _undoubtedly_ wrong - at least _I´m_ in doubt about it! >Did you ever hear about ´Gustav´, ´Chest´, ´ChestUCI´, .... ? ;-) > >Regards, >Franz. Hello Franz, I'm sure John knows quite well about Chest. We both compared results of Chest and ChessMaster numerous times for mate positions. And CM is really amazing at it. While there is no guarantee that CM will find the shortest mate, it very frequently does so, and faster than Chest most of the time. The terminology is a bit confusing at times. While Chest (and Gustav) are "mate provers", CM (and most playing programs) are "mate finders". The term "mate solver" is a bit ambiguous, so I would like to see used the former two terms... well. Cheers, Heiner
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