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Subject: Re: Question about WAC

Author: F. Huber

Date: 14:21:27 04/18/05

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On April 18, 2005 at 17:10:40, Steven Edwards wrote:

>On April 18, 2005 at 17:03:53, F. Huber wrote:
>>is there anywhere information available, which positions of the WAC test suite
>>are actually a ´mate in n´?
>>
>>I would like to let ChestUCI analyze this WAC suite, but of course knowing
>>IF a position is a mate at all (and in HOW MANY moves) would make this task
>>much easier! ;-)
>
>Coincidentially, I'm in the process of running a one hour per position analysis
>on WAC right now.  In the first 163 problems, a forced mating sequence was found
>in 41 of them.  The run should complete in a few more days.

That´s really interesting, Steven! :-)

I hope you´ll post your results (which positions and the mate depth) here -
such a long (and complete) test would be too strenuous for my old notebook ...
;-)

Regards,
Franz.



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