Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 14:00:01 12/27/99
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On December 27, 1999 at 16:32:29, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 27, 1999 at 16:23:26, Peter Fendrich wrote: > >>I'm sorry if I should understand but I don't... >> >>Is it mate position from the 1924 NY tournament, analyzed by some chess program? > >Yes. All of these are analyzed by the [truly excellent] program 'Chest' by >Heiner Marxen (and others). > >>How did you select what was mate positions? >I don't I just give all 10,000 unique rows to Chest and let it fly. > >Some of the positions are already mates. Chest looks for a shorter one or >validates it (sometimes, the mates are wrong). > >Some of the positions are not known to be mates. Chest searches 10 ply >exhaustively for checkmates. Some have been found this way that were not >previously known. A deeper search will find more (I am sure). Quite a project and interesting! I suppose that you have other tournaments in mind as well. I've never heard about Chest, is it a specialized mate searcher? //Peter
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