Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 01:30:08 11/01/05
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On October 31, 2005 at 16:12:22, Terry McCracken wrote: >How well do your engines, both commercial and noncommercial handle this mate? > >Please specify hardware used. > >[D]6q1/1p6/1r1P1rpQ/4n3/1P1K1Pk1/8/bP1B1Ppn/6b1 w - - 0 1 This is a rather poor test, not only because of the artificial nature of the position, but also because such very long, forced mates doesn't really measure anything else than the maximum search depth of a program. My program has the maximum depth set to 60, and will therefore *never* find the mate, even if you let it search for billions of years. After changing the maximum search depth to 100, mate is announced after 33 seconds (on an iMac G5 1.8 GHz). Tord
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