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Subject: Re: Keeping the last pawn

Author: Mike S.

Date: 17:18:48 11/27/00

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On November 27, 2000 at 19:21:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>(...)

>Note that this code has been significantly rewritten, so older versions probably
>will behave a bit differently here.  It was time to clean up the detection of
>"one side can't win" and do it right, rather than in a kludge.  It now knows
>that KR vs KNP is not a win for the KR, ditto for KRB vs KRP and so forth...
>the extra piece isn't enough.

Thanks; Crafty 16.6 (my favorite version so far) seemed to have this problem
indeed. I have put downloading and testing the next release of Crafty on my
higher priorities list.

Regards,
M.Scheidl




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