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Subject: Re: an interesting bug in my move generator

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 14:25:25 12/31/01

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On December 31, 2001 at 17:07:31, Uri Blass wrote:

>My program had problems with WAC 250 so I decided to ask it to calculate the
>perft function and found that it cannot calculate perft 4 correctly
>
>The bug is that my program believed that double check from 2 rook directions is
>impossible
>
>Here is the position of WAC 250
>[D]1b5k/7P/p1p2np1/2P2p2/PP3P2/4RQ1R/q2r3P/6K1 w - - 0 1
>
>When I asked my program to calculate perft it failed in perft 4.
>
>My program did not count correctly the number of moves after
>1.a5 Ng8 hxg8Q+
>
>it turns out that my program simply did not see that the rook does a check so it
>believed that Qxg8 is a legal move.
>
>My program also believes that double check from 2 diagnols is impossible and I
>hope that at least it is not wrong with it.
>
>Uri

This is quite interesting , thx for sharing !




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