Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:04:05 11/01/05
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On November 01, 2005 at 04:30:08, Tord Romstad wrote: >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. Not exactly and even programs with the same maximum search depth need different time. programs that do not do single reply extensions but only extend checks by a single will probably also fail to find it in a reasonable time because they will need 36 plies to find the mate. Uri
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