Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:00:31 01/05/99
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On January 05, 1999 at 18:44:59, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 05, 1999 at 11:05:46, Matthew Herman wrote: >[snip] >>Here is another of one of those positions 5k1K/7P/8/8/8/8/8/N7 w - - >>It is drawn as white (with the knight) cannot "lose a tempo" and drive the king >>away from f7/f8. (with black to move or the knight on a2 it is a win). >>Programs don't see this either (Junior at depth 60 says +6.96) >> >>Also as Hyatt said.. if it is in the tablebase it knows if it is drawn or a win >>.. and will say drawn at root etc.. (this is what fouled me up when using crafty >>under the winboard adaptor to get access to the tablebases via chessbase (it >>wouldn't show = 0.00 at the drawn positions but rather say +2.00 (in a KRKB >>drawn ending)) >You raise a good point. I wish that when the chess engine *knows* the position >is drawn, that it would report a ce of 0.00. To report (e.g. +2.0) different >values is clearly incorrect. I don't care if it wants to continue to try to >pull out a win and hope for a mistake. But it should not report an erroneous >conclusion. this will be fixed in 16.4... there are two alternatives. first, in analyze mode or when annotating games, "swindle mode" is disabled. Second, a new command (swindle off) will disable this even when playing...
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