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Subject: Re: endgame position

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:06:02 01/04/01

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On January 04, 2001 at 01:17:14, James T. Walker wrote:

>On January 03, 2001 at 23:54:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 03, 2001 at 19:51:25, Michael Fuhrmann wrote:
>>
>>>[D] 8/5p2/8/4P1p1/4bk2/8/8/4BK2 b - - 0 63
>>>
>>>This position was reached in a comp-comp blitz game on my computer between
>>>crafty 17.14 and little goliath. I was surprised that crafty (black) did not
>>>play Kxe5, which wins, and instead played g4, which eventually draws.
>>>
>>>Later I let crafty analyse the position, and it doesn't really seem to settle on
>>>Kxe5 until ply 16 or thereabouts (about 2 1/2 minutes on my computer).
>>
>>
>>Do you have a position.bin with something odd in it?  I tried this and I
>>can't get crafty to consider _anything_ but Kxe5, from ply 1 through 19.
>
>I get essentially the same thing (g4 then later Kxe5 in ply 16) on two different
>versions of Crafty 17.14.  First is Crafty 17.14 provided by Chessbase and used
>in the Fritz GUI. The second is the Wcrafty 17.14 downloaded from your site and
>used in the ChessPartner GUI.
>Jim


Try deleting "position.bin" and see what happens...



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