Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:58:53 03/22/01
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On March 22, 2001 at 17:55:07, Derek Mauro wrote:
>I'm no expert on computer chess, but I thought I'd call this to everyone's
>attention. I was analyzing one of my recent games with Tiger (reg. and gambit),
>and had a drawn position(I had black).
>
>[D]8/8/8/8/1n6/2K5/p7/6k1 w - - 0 111
>
>For some reason, in the obvious draw, Tiger gives it -12 and wants to play
>Kxb4?? even after like 20 minutes. All the programs seem to think its about -6
>or so, but they all play the correct move, the obvious Kb2. Is this a bug?
>(The 4 piece tablebases will easily solve this bug, but this position is so
>incredibly easy that I can't see why it would even need them.)
Tiger 14 without tablebases would play Kb2 (but the score is still very far from
a draw).
With tablebases, it plays Kb2 instantly with a draw score.
So just wait for April 2nd and download the free Tiger 14 release from the Rebel
website: www.rebel.nl
Christophe
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