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Subject: Re: To NON-believers in EGTB benefits... (your analysis is wrong)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:58:02 11/20/05

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On November 21, 2005 at 02:53:45, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>On November 21, 2005 at 02:38:15, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On November 20, 2005 at 22:42:02, enrico carrisco wrote:
>>
>>>Let's take a simple KRK ending...
>>>
>>>[D]8/2k5/8/3R4/8/8/5K2/8 w - - 0 1
>>>
>>>Now let's run it through some of our favorite new and old engines without using
>>>any egtb's... (i.e. engine's knowledge of the ending only.)
>>>
>>>8/2k5/8/3R4/8/8/5K2/8 w - - 0 1
>>
>><snipped>
>>>Now let's use Fruit 2.2.1 in the same conditions (no egtb):
>
>Interesting, Uri. Can you try something, and perhaps try to provide a reason of
>why this happens? I really have no idea here.
>
>Run the same position you did above, (8/2k5/8/3R4/8/8/5K2/8 w - - 0 1), move
>Kf3, analyze for a few seconds. Now back up to the start position without
>clearing hash and reanalyze, for me it isn't finding the mate and taking quite a
>long time to reach the next few ply. Any idea what is going on? Thanks.

I did not try it but I will not be surprised.
I know that fruit has some hash bugs and it is not the first time
that I see strange things like that happened.

I already posted in the past information about a similiar bug.

Uri



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