Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:42:04 12/27/99
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On December 27, 1999 at 17:00:01, Peter Fendrich wrote: >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. Actually, I have one million positions queued up. >I've never heard about Chest, is it a specialized mate searcher? Yes. Look here: http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/chest.html I think it is fantabulous. Ranks right up there with Crafty as an incredible open-source project.
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