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Subject: Re: Endgame position revisited...

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:11:40 04/23/02

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On April 23, 2002 at 13:00:30, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On April 23, 2002 at 12:40:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Here is an endgame position posted a week or so:
>>
>>[D]1b6/8/8/7p/6k1/6P1/8/6K1 w - - 0 1
>
>Truly an 'amazing discovery'. Breaks mine, breaks the Yace I have,
>breaks pretty much most programs with this knowledge I guess...
>
>--
>GCP


The really strange thing is that this is drawn no matter where you put
the black pieces.  But the search can force the stalemate way into the
future and break most any search that doesn't handle stalemates in the
q-search...  and none of my programs have ever done that so they would
all fail.  I even tried Cray Blitz and it had the identical problem...



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