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Subject: Re: Keeping the last pawn

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:57:54 11/27/00

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On November 27, 2000 at 20:18:48, Mike S. wrote:

>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


This has been around for a while.  I accepted a few eval changes, but forgot
that I had changed a few things in a way that was incompatible with the old way
of doing things.  Which made the changes I accepted from someone not quite work
the way they were intended...  and it wasn't obvious that they were failing.



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