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

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 12:16:22 03/13/01

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On March 13, 2001 at 09:42:23, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.

I think basically Crafty won this one, if nothing else because Comet
malfunctioned and insisted that it's a draw.  But since I spent so many days
running this game, I'm going to find a way to force feed this to Comet and make
sure it calculates on that position for a half hour, because now I gotta see how
the game would have ended.

The tablebase stuff is in the .rc file, but it's commented out at the moment.

Pete



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