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Subject: Re: Beautiful Mate !!!! Go AHEAD , solve it with Fritz5 .....

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:16:38 04/28/99

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On April 28, 1999 at 12:38:26, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote:

>Yes, It is beautiful! Fritz5.32 and Junior5 do not solve this. (or solve it
>quickly enough for our taste anyway).

Junior5 solved it at tournament time control and it is quickly enough for my
taste.

  I put it on the King engine in
>TASCBASE2.0 (very simular engine to CM5500-CM6000).  It finds the solution in
>about 2 seconds.  Obviously, the De Konig engine has some unique search
>extensions for mate positons in its root search that allow it to find beautiful
>mates like this.


The problem of De Konig engine is that sometimes I can see that it is using a
lot of time for stupid sacrifices.
You can see it by looking at the thinking lines of chessmaster6000

It does not know to extend sacrifices only in the right cases.

Uri



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