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Subject: Re: Interesting comp vs comp position

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:18:36 07/15/03

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On July 15, 2003 at 22:05:59, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On July 15, 2003 at 15:21:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Here is a position reached in a game on ICC between Crafty and an
>>unnamed opponent:
>>
>>[D]8/2k2p2/7p/ppPK4/6P1/P6P/8/8 w 0 1
>>
>
>The above position was done by a program that obviously did not use the 5 man
>tablebases. The only program that I can find in the ones that I have that play
>c6 without tablebases is Tiger. All the others almost instantly go to Ke4.
>
>You were obviously playing a Tiger clone. Odd that it plays it though, and under
>all versions. ( Tiger, Gambit, Gambit Agg, Gambit Sui ).
>
>Nothing else seems to play it. Unless you played a private engine.



A program needs to know that c6 loses without having endgame tables...

IE crafty sees -1.0 quickly on my laptop with tables turned off.  It goes
better and better for black as it gets deeper..



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