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Subject: Re: Rybka - not an endgame expert

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:45:30 12/05/05

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On December 05, 2005 at 10:33:19, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

>On December 05, 2005 at 08:34:26, Gabor Szots wrote:
>
>>Just two examples. Positions taken from from PET.
>>
>>
>>8/5k2/4p3/4Pp1p/5P1P/3Rn2K/6p1/8 b - - bm g1=B;                id "PET026: rook
>>vs knight";
>>
>>Here Rybka plays g1Q, although it does see it is only draw.
>>
>>
>>8/8/1P1k2p1/8/5P1p/4Qb2/1q4PK/8 w - - bm Qe5+;                 id "PET046: Q+B
>>vs Q";
>>
>>Rybka captures at f3.
>>
>>
>>Both positions are easily solved by most of the engines. Position No26 usually
>>in 0 seconds.
>
>Thanks for the positions, however my even worse answer is that I am aware of
>this :( You will probably have to wait for Rybka 2.0 sometime next year.
>
>The only bug in this thread that will definitely be fixed for Rybka 1.0 is the
>one given by GCP - a chess engine should be able to mate with KQQ v K :)
>
>Vas

What is the reason for the problem to fix it?

I thought that at least underpromotion is easy to fix.
If the problem is some speed reduction you can have default version that does
not consider underpromotions and slightly slower version that considers
underpromotions.

Uri



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