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Subject: Re: Deep Shredder endgame blunder

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:26:43 05/31/01

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On May 31, 2001 at 13:32:44, James T. Walker wrote:

>Here is a position reached by Deep Shredder at G/60.  Deep Shredder had
>approximately 15 minutes on the clock when it took only 13 seconds to make the
>blunder (Athlon 900 360 M hash tables).
>(not sure if diagram will show up----haven't done it in a long time)
>
>[D]R7/8/3K4/8/7P/5P2/3p4/1k6 w - -
>
>Here Deep Shredder abandoned the perpetual check and played 75. Ke5 ??  Three
>moves later Deep Shredder announced "Mate in 53" on itself.  :(


I think something else is wrong.  I just ran this and can't get Crafty to
consider anything but the check.  I can't imagine that shredder can't see
that anything else is bad.  Are you overclocking or something odd that could
cause strange results?



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