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Subject: Re: Mate in 28?

Author: Andreas Stabel

Date: 00:21:10 05/08/03

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On May 06, 2003 at 18:35:44, Richard Pijl wrote:

>On May 06, 2003 at 17:13:54, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On May 06, 2003 at 16:58:13, Joachim Rang wrote:
>>
>>>It would be too good to be true (german saying zu gut um wahr zu sein) if Baron
>>>would solve this position in just a few seconds.
>>
>>I thought when I read about it that the baron solved it because of special
>>knowledge because I read in the past that richard planned to do
>>the baron good in endgames so I thought that he taught the baron about
>>the pattern in the endgame(It is possible to do it but
>>I prefer to spend time about more productive changes
>>and I still have problems with correct
>>productive evaluation of normal unstoppable
>>passed pawns).
>>
>>Uri
>
>Unfortunately it was a bug in unstoppable passed pawn detection.
>I corrected the error and Baron is no Superman anymore.
>Baron is now thinking for over 7 minutes and hasn't even selected e5 yet :-(
>
>Richard.

I love this - Baron found the right move in a few seconds - that was too good
to be true, so a bug was corrected - now the new improved Baron doesn't see
the solution at all - progress !

Science is a strange thing :)

Regards
Andreas Stabel



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