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Subject: Re: Is this an engine bug in Chessmaster 8000?

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 08:58:47 11/25/00

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Laurence,

>Agreed, there's nothing odd about CM changing its mind.  I believe that the so
>called "bug" is not really a "bug", as CM searches deeper it changed its mind
>with the previous evaluation, and that the move it intended to play 18. Nxc7 is
>a mistake because of 18. ... Qe3+.  The bug seems to be that it did not display
>this evaluation as negative in the window, and instead it display the next best
>move Raf1 with a score of 0.00.  Hence, there's nothing odd with the choice made

So I guess you don't beleive the PV.  The only other program that does something
similar is Rebel Tiger and that reduces the depth for the research - so I would
still say that something different is going on

Steve



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