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Subject: Re: Here's another problem

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 02:05:04 01/11/06

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On January 10, 2006 at 04:43:09, Jouni Uski wrote:

>On January 10, 2006 at 04:34:29, Vasik Rajlich wrote:
>
>>On January 10, 2006 at 04:02:16, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>[D]1rr3k1/4ppb1/2q1bnp1/1p2B1Q1/6P1/2p2P2/2P1B2R/2K4R w - -
>>>
>>>This position jams Rybka WinFinder for about 40 seconds! Why?
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>Here WinFinder (default setings) gets it in 5 ply and a small fraction of a
>>second. Can you email me a copy & paste of your output?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Vas
>
>This is from ECM test suite and yes mate is found instantly. But it takes
>45 seconds before next position analysis is started - somehow WinFinder doesn't
>stop
>after finding mate?! Seems to happen with all mates...
>
>Jouni

Aha, yes, this can happen. It's because the GUI insists on doing another
iteration after the mate is found and the Rybka search then goes berserk. Rybka
1.2 will handle this properly.

Vas



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