Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 03:18:38 09/15/98
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What Erkki claimed seemed sufficiently intriguing for me to immediately set up
the position for Crafty 15_18 (AMD K6-2/300)and what I got does not confirm the
bug. Here's the log:
[Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "HAL"]
[Date "1998.09.15"]
[Round "-"]
[White "wcrafty-15_18"]
[Black "Djordje"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "120+1"]
[FEN "8/4k3/6KP/4N3/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
{--------------
. . . . . . . .
. . . . k . . .
. . . . . . K P
. . . . N . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
white to play
--------------}
1. Nc4 Ke8 2. Nd6+ Ke7 3. Nf5+ Ke8 4. h7 Kd7 5. h8=Q Kc6 6. Qc3+ Kd5 7. Kf6
Ke4 8. Ke6 Kf4 9. Qg3+ Ke4 10. Qe3#
{White mates} 1-0
Crafty does go about blindly a bit (move ordering), but mates easily in the end.
Regards,
Djordje
On September 15, 1998 at 05:56:02, Erkki Malkamaki wrote:
>Wcrafty 15.18 without endgame tables can´t win as white from the following
>position:
>
>White: Kg6,Ne5,ph6
>Black: Ke7
>
>Crafty moves Knight or King aimlessly and "forgets" the pawn at h6.
>Versions < = 15.17 move the pawn almost immediately.
>
>I have tested this with P90,P200MMX and AMD K6-2 300 with same results.
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