Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:45:46 12/28/00
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On December 28, 2000 at 18:40:30, Howard Exner wrote: >On December 27, 2000 at 22:28:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Strange. I tried this and I _never_ get Nxf3 at all. I get h3 at early >>plies, then Kf6, until it changes to Kf5 for good... Interesting problem >>of course. And I have seen this happen to both crafty and its opponents >>from time to time... > >Even though there are 8 pieces on the board it looks like the table base >endings come into play. Vincent's program discovers a mate in 30 or something. >Century 3 plays Kf5 at 8:42 on an Athlon 900. > >Most likely all programs will eventually incorporate the endgame table bases. >Otherwise good and solid middlegame play may not be rewarded on those occasions >were endgame bases detect the outcome of a game long before it's non-base >counterpart. I ran this on a machine with no tablebases of any kind... Crafty never considers Nxf3...
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