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Subject: Re: Lucky bug

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 16:02:53 12/14/00

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On December 13, 2000 at 22:33:27, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>My program was down a couple of pawns against Crafty in an opposite bishop
>ending with rooks on the board, when suddenly it traded off a couple of pawns,
>traded off the rooks, ran with its king into a corner, and declared the position
>equal:
>
> 8/8/3b4/8/7k/6pp/8/5B1K w - - 0 1
>
>I couldn't figure out why it was smart enough to have a draw score for this
>position, then it occurred to me that Crafty has B + wrong RP :-)

Nice story - really. But would you like to elaborate, by which means your
program detected the draw. Without the black g pawn, it seems rather easy,
but with this pawn ...
Or did I totally misunderstand you post, and this was the subject of the bug?

Regards,
Dieter




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