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Subject: Re: Highest eval nad no win?

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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