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Subject: Re: Mate in 2? 3?

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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