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Subject: Re: Gambit Tiger 2 Analysis Mode fail in endgame

Author: Laurence Chen

Date: 06:32:59 04/02/01

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On April 01, 2001 at 23:12:07, James T. Walker wrote:

>On April 01, 2001 at 22:13:01, Laurence Chen wrote:
>
>>Is it me or other users are also experiencing the same "bug"?  I've just updated
>>Gambit Tiger to the new version, and the first thing I've tested was the
>>analysis mode, and to my disappointment it fails to analyze if the position is
>>an endgame if there's 5 pieces or less.  I have all the 5 men tablebases, and
>>the analysis mode fails to suggest any move at all.  I think the Beta testers
>>failed to check for bugs and they were supposed to check for all bugs, no for
>>chess engine strenght alone, this annoys me.  Well I hope that Christopher can
>>fix this minor bug.
>
>Hello Laurence,
>Why do you want to "analyze" a 5 man endgame when the tablebases will give you
>the best move?  I guess you are right, it's a bug but I don't see it as major
>since just telling it to move will give the "best move".  Also if you turn off
>the "Use endgame databases" option under the "Extra/options" menus it will
>analyze the endgame for you.
>Jim
Hi Jim,

It's not that I want to analyze a 5 men endgame, it surprised me that the
analysis mode failed when I loaded any 3, 4, or 5 men endgame.  Of course, I
could use any of my Chessbase engines in order to analyze 5 men endgame.  Put
this way, what if I set up a position with 7 men endgame, and it gets to a point
in which a trade of pieces is possible to reduce to a 5 men endgame, because
Chess Patner only displays the principal PV, unlike Chessbase GUI which gives
all other alternatives, I like to try different moves in the analyzis mode and
see what PV score GT or CT would give.   And if the endgame gets reduced to a 5
men endgame, I won't be able to see the evaluation because of this bug.  That
means that I would have to use a Chessbase engine to analyze the position, which
means closing CT or GT and open another program.  Then what would be point of
using GT or CT to analyze endgame positions if I need to open another chess
program to do a follow up. Grrr....
Regards,
Laurence



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