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Subject: Re: A proposed WAC replacement for testing

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 14:24:18 09/19/01

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On September 19, 2001 at 10:50:57, Tim Foden wrote:

>On September 19, 2001 at 08:33:51, Tim Foden wrote:
>
>>On September 19, 2001 at 07:50:10, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>>>Summarizing: we have one disagreement, which implies a bug.
>>>I will inspect that later, and tell you, why Chest thinks that your
>>>mate-in-6-PV is not correct.
>>
>>I agree with Chest.  I don't believe that your program has a bug... I believe
>>that mine does :-/
>>
>>I have suspected this since we had a similar disagreement about mates for one of
>>Leonid's test problems.  This was months ago.  GLC also has a problem with
>>Fine70.  Somewhere there is a search/hashing bug in GLC, but I'm buggered if I
>>can find it :) (and I have been trying to find it).  I will keep looking though.
>
>OK, I think I found the bug with respect to finding mates.  GLC now says:
>
>  7   3.63 +Mate07 2517274  Rh4+ Kxh4 Qh7+ Kg5 f6+ Kg4 f5+ Kg5 Kg7 cxd6 Qg6+
>                              Kh4 Qg4#
>
>Which agrees much better with Chest.

Fine!  Case closed (for me).

>However, the fix I made only affects CheckMates, so Fine70 still has a bug for
>me. :)

Such is the life as a programmer: you never catch the last bug.
Being bug free is even more important for Chest, and I try hard to achieve
that, but still I continue to find long standing bugs from time to time :-(

Good luck on your bug hunt!
Heiner



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