Author: Francis Monkman
Date: 04:21:15 05/28/99
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On May 28, 1999 at 00:14:34, James Robertson wrote: >You are close, but that is not quite the explanation. Both Crafty and my program >will complete the ply if they find a mate (there may be a shorter one than the >fist one found, due to like you mentioned check extensions), but my program >terminates the search after if finds a mate and finishes the ply. Programs like >LambChop continue searching until the time is up, so they would find the mate. > >James This is what I've often found. There was a mate in 9 that I posted recently, Hiarcs 7 and Rebel 10 settled for 13 and 11 respectively, then stopped searching. Francis
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