Author: Rafael Vasquez
Date: 15:03:23 04/07/98
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Thanks for the tip Thorsten, i will use it in my test games. Regards, Rafael On April 07, 1998 at 11:36:23, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On April 07, 1998 at 06:55:30, Eric Gallula wrote: > >>hi all friends, >> >>Yesterday evening,I tried again on the draw position CST/FR5 and >>EFFECTIVELY with the last CST upgrade (cstwhite.exe ) from oxford-soft >>WEB ,CST finds 43 Nf6+ in few seconds with +2.25 in evaluation and after >>2 minutes we have +3.30 !! in evaluation with the following moves: >> >> >> >>43 Nf6+ Bxf6 44 gxf6 Qxf2+ 45 Kxf2 Rc7 46 Nxd6 Rb8 47 Rh1+ Kg6 >>48 Rg1+ Kf6 49 Ne4+ Ke7 50 d6 >> > >You could have used the cstwhite /sendinfo >switch to get the mainlines and evaluations and search-depths >automatically printed in an ASCII file on the disk named sendinfo.dat. >Try this feature out. It should help you to log-file what happened >during the search process. You can log-file whole games to save all >important data for further analysis. > > > >> >>Best regards, >>Eric > >Eric you are absolutely right. CSTal commercial CD has a repetition bug. >This bug was in the program for a long time. >As I said one Aegon tournament i had 5 draws and 1 win or arround this >and people called it Chess System Draw. >Despite this NAME it played NICE draws, attacking games where it sacced >a piece and suddenly forced a draw by repetition to the surprise of the >opponent who thought he would lose the game. >Of course the versions on the Oxford Server do not have this bug. >In my tournament vs. Fritz5 I do play with the commercial CD-version >because it is sold THIS way in the shops and only people with Internet >are able to download the latest fixes. > >So far I have played 14 tournament 40/120 games manually. >8 games were draw. >3 wins for CSTal. >3 wins for Fritz5. > >It does not looks like CSTal loses badly against Fritz5. >Nor seems Fritz5 able to get 72 % :-)) > >Maybe after my match I could try to test how the cstwhite/cstblack >bug-fixed versions play. Or - if you want YOU could test some >games/matches and maybe email me. > >My email is mclane@prima.ruhr.de > >Thanks. > >IMO if you can win a game, it is not important if you make a draw out of >it (due to a bug in the code) or win the game. >You were able to force the opponent in a losing position. Thats enough. >Killing him is not needed. Be a pacifist and call your enemy your friend >and give him a new birthday, make a draw and both you and he is happy. >So this CStal bug is very human, IMO.
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