Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:08:13 03/27/00
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On March 27, 2000 at 21:27:31, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 27, 2000 at 21:17:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >[snip] >>This is caused by the bishop 'leaving'. It found a way to sac the bishop, >>and since you don't have even simple databases like kpk, it won't realize that >>the resulting ending is a dead draw... >> >>I don't get that odd behavior at all here, with databases turned on... >That's odd. I have the 3&4 piece tablebase files installed, and crafty reports >that it finds them... > >Here is the startup for that position from the log file: >pondering enabled. >EGTB cache memory = 6M bytes. >hash table memory = 24M bytes. >pawn hash table memory = 8M bytes. >EGTB access enabled >using tbpath=e:/crafty/release/tb,F:/KBP >4 piece tablebase files found >1302kb of RAM used for TB indices and decompression tables >search nodes set to 100000000. >PFGA: EPD record: 1 >end-game phase > clearing hash tables > time surplus 0.00 time limit 16:39 (16:39) Watch the PV when the score is funny. It probably finds a way to force black to take the B, while keeping 2 or 3 pawns... most likely 3 pawns... which means that if you don't have all the 5 piece endings, that will look like a winning position for white...
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