Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 12:05:55 11/22/00
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On November 22, 2000 at 12:30:31, Fernando Villegas wrote: >OK, Jim, but you must concur with me that B+N mate is not just one problem >between many, but a clasic kind of position every current program must solve and >every tester must look at as a matter of fact. The same with: >a) king + pawn againts King >b) King + Rook againts King >c) King+ pawn in the h or a file >d) oposition rule >e) king +queen against king +rook >... And maybe some more. I think that these kind of situations should be tested >as a minimal test of proficiency. Should be kind of a rule of testing >operations. >Regards >fernando in those times of dedicated chess computers we tested these stuff, but since programs use tablebases the "testing" concerning endgame is old-fashioned. not if the program uses NO tablebase, as we now have learned again. you are right fernando. it was our mistake... and now ? big deal ? as i told you, i think christophe will make a new engine, lex/ed will put it on the server and the customer gets an upgrade...
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