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Subject: Re: Comet/Crafty - This is a draw?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:42:23 03/13/01

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On March 13, 2001 at 00:19:32, Pete Galati wrote:

>On March 12, 2001 at 23:41:09, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>[.........]
>>
>>Since there was a recent capture and there are not any positions repeated it
>>looks like a comet bug.
>>
>>No way that it found a tablebase draw.  Too many pieces on the board.
>>[D]2b1q2k/6bp/3p1Bp1/1p1Pp3/1Pn1B1NP/5PP1/6K1/2Q5 b - -
>
>And since neither program had bothered calling it an endgame yet, I hadn't even
>bothered telling either one where I kept the tablebases yet.
>
>Pete

don't wait too long.  Crafty can hit the tablebases with 16 pieces left on
the board.  It happens all the time.

But there is a bug here, as this is not a draw in any shape, form or fashion.



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