Author: John Merlino
Date: 14:14:55 03/15/01
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On March 15, 2001 at 13:50:07, Mike S. wrote: >On March 14, 2001 at 20:56:02, John Merlino wrote: > >>On March 14, 2001 at 18:44:04, Mike S. wrote: >>>Yes! ...nearly (unfortunately there's one flaw in the game >>>Aljechin(CM)-Capablanca(CM) below: after 128....Kxf7, black couldn't win KR-K). > >>That's very strange, because one other user reported it, several weeks ago, and >>the development team could not get the program to repeat this bug under any >>circumstances. (...) > >Meanwhile I tried to reproduce this too on my system, with version 1.0.2. I >cannot repeat it; Capablanca (CM) always finds the mate easily (as you would >expect it). So I assume, black was either *very* short on time, or there was a >non-chessmasterly technical problem of some kind which caused this. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl Actually, that's pretty much exactly what Johan said, although he said that the "technical problem" (which he called a "stressed system") was more likely, as he said that, positionally, The King should have no problem solving this under any time situation, unless the personality settings prevent it. jm
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