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Subject: Re: Would Hiarcs 7.32 Win in a Match against....

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 11:55:05 06/01/00

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On June 01, 2000 at 14:51:10, blass uri wrote:

>On June 01, 2000 at 14:41:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On June 01, 2000 at 13:16:38, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>On June 01, 2000 at 11:03:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>><snipped>
>>>>I think you have to take their PV with a grain of salt, although I trust their
>>>>score at the root pretty well since it was a 17 ply search in this case.
>>>
>>>Their score in the root does not make sense and can only be a result of a bug
>>>Other programs can see at least -4 pawns after Rd1 so -1.8 pawns is not logical.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>Did you let _other_ programs search as deeply as DB did?  It hit 17 plies on
>>that move.  Until you reach their depth, you can't validate their score.
>
>I know that in the position after Rd1 the score only goes down when you search
>deeper.
>
>Deeper blue resigned in the next move and they had a reason for resigning.
>If the score 17 plies after Rd1 is only -180 they could avoid resigning.
>
>I guess they understood that it was a bug.
>I remember that I read(I do not remember where) that the reason was a bug.
>
>Uri

If it is game 1 of the 2nd match, than that was caused by a bug in the DB.
Murray Campbel said it during his lecture at MS. He even said what bug it was --
"C macro expanded inproperly" :-)

Eugene



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