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Subject: Re: Mate in 14

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 14:27:33 12/02/05

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On December 02, 2005 at 17:19:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.
>
>
>If what you wrote was correct, he might have understood it.  But it is _not_
>correct.   This is a clear bug, any chess programmer will tell you so...

I don't believe it's a bug of Shredder 8.  My post above shows Shredder 8
analysis of the position and does not ever announce mate in 11.  Probably a
corruption of the info while making moves forward and backward with the
position.  Unfortunately here is an example of the problem with ProDeo 1.1.

00:00:00.4	-Mate in 0	1	170	Rh7 Nxf2#
00:00:00.5	-6.64	1	1673	Bxf7+ Kxf7 Rf4+ Kg6
00:00:00.5	-2.30	1	1945	Qd6+ Qf6 Qxg3+ Qg5
00:00:00.5	-1.88	1	2599	Qd3+ Kf6 Qd6+ Kg5 Qxg3+ Kf6
00:00:00.5	-1.88	2	2903	Qd3+ Kf6 Qd6+ Kg5 Qxg3+ Kf6
00:00:00.5	-1.88	2	3208	Rg4+
00:00:00.5	0.00	2	3320	Rg4+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7
00:00:00.5	0.00	3	3853	Rg4+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8
00:00:00.5	0.00	4	9919	Rg4+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+
00:00:00.5	0.00	5	31596	Rg4+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+
00:00:00.5	0.00	5	46210	Qd6+
00:00:00.5	0.00	5	48909	Qd6+
00:00:00.6	0.00	5	46210	Qd6+
00:00:00.7	0.00	6	162677	Rg4+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+
00:00:01.0	0.00	7	403409	Rg4+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+
00:00:02.5	0.00	8	1414802	Rg4+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+
00:00:07.1	0.00	9	4852139	Rg4+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+
00:00:21.6	0.00	10	16219702	Rg4+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+
00:01:04.8	0.00	11	50424439	Rg4+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+
00:03:43.2	0.00	12	175080342	Rg4+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg8 Qd8+
00:03:58.9	0.00	12	187017305	Qd3+
00:04:01.5	0.00	12	188901047	Qd3+
00:04:17.1	 Mate in 12	12	200972720	Qd3+ f5 Qxg3+ Kf6 Qd6+
00:05:40.4	 Mate in 12	13	267914170	Qd3+ f5 Qxg3+ Kf6 Qd6+ Kg5 Rh5+ Kxh5 Bf7+
00:11:21.0	 Mate in 12	14	532797031	Qd3+ f5 Qxg3+ Kf6 Qd6+ Kg5 Rh5+ Kxh5 Bf7+
00:53:30.4	 Mate in 14	15	2370064214	Qd3+ f5 Qxg3+ Kf6



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