Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:10:58 03/08/01
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On March 08, 2001 at 11:22:09, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >> What is the highest positive evaluation you have seen a program display and not >>win ...and what is the lowest eval you have seen a program display and not >>lose? > >Well, there are these stories from the good old days where some >program kept announcing a "mate in X moves" but never managed to >execute the mating sequence and finally had to settle for a draw >by repetition / 50-move rule ... :-) > >=Ernst= I think you mean Coko in the 1970 ACM event. But it didn't draw the game, it _lost_ the game... It was a selective program and they had neglected to include distance-to-mate in the mate score. I think it was vs a program named genie but I don't have any of my files here at home... more tomorrow if I remember to look.
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