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Subject: Re: Post your longest mate in a 5 man position. I found a mate in 98

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:23:59 01/10/02

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On January 10, 2002 at 15:30:20, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On January 10, 2002 at 10:17:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>[...]Of course, there _will_ be those
>>positions that it thinks it is winning, but it will end up drawing due to the
>>50 move rule.  But so far they have been _very_ rare.  Against humans, and that
>>is the primary kind of chess I am interested in, this is not nearly such an
>>issue.  Against another computer with tables, both will be wrong as one will
>>think it is winning, the other will think it is losing, when in fact it is a
>>draw...
>
>And the other computer, equipped with the same TBs and the same misfeature, will
>possibly have resigned long before it is seen, that the mate score is wrong with
>current chess rules ...
>
>-- Dieter

This problem is easy to fix.

tell it never to resign in comp-comp games.
It is good not only because of this reason.

The other program may have a bug and miss mate in 1.

Uri



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