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Subject: Re: Mate in 14

Author: F. Huber

Date: 14:17:31 12/02/05

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On December 02, 2005 at 17:14:33, chandler yergin wrote:

>On December 02, 2005 at 16:49:33, F. Huber wrote:
>
>>On December 02, 2005 at 16:12:40, chandler yergin wrote:
>>
>>>On December 02, 2005 at 16:06:30, Paul Jacobean Sacral wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 02, 2005 at 15:58:17, chandler yergin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 02, 2005 at 15:49:11, Paul Jacobean Sacral wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>Call it bug, mistake, error or whatever you like: If the shortest possible mate
>>>>>>in a position is #14 and an engine displays #11, there is something wrong.
>>>>>Nope!
>>>>>The engine sees a line it calls it! That is what it's supposed to do!
>>>>>"Engines evaluate all moves 1/2 move i.e. 1 Ply at a time."
>>>>>Nothing more.. nothing less.
>>>>>The deeper the search the better the evaluation.
>>>>>On deeper search it found there was only a Mate in 14.
>>>>
>>>>From YOUR OWN posting:
>>>>
>>>>1.Qd3+ f5 2.Qxg3+
>>>>  +-  (#14)   Depth: 16/16   00:00:01  247kN
>>>>1.Qd3+ f5 2.Qxg3+ Kf6 3.Qd6+ Kg5 4.Rh5+ Kxh5 5.Qxd2
>>>>  +-  (#11)   Depth: 17/18   00:00:02  596kN
>>>>
>>>>Depth 16: #14 -> correct
>>>>Depth 17: #11 -> wrong
>>>>
>>>>Would you please accept that we have a problem here :-))
>>>NO!
>>>
>>>"Engines evaluate all moves 1/2 move i.e. 1 Ply at a time."
>>>Nothing more.. nothing less.
>>>The deeper the search the better the evaluation.
>>>On deeper search it found there was only a Mate in 14.
>>>You don't understand this?
>>>Agree or not?
>>>Thanks,
>>>Chan
>>
>>Are you a parrot?
>Only if you don't understand what I write.

Ok, here´s a little lesson in logic:

I don´t ===> you are



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