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Subject: Re: The King 3.12d is weak in the endgames !

Author: Sergei Smith

Date: 11:00:39 03/28/02

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On March 28, 2002 at 10:30:06, SedatCambaz wrote:

>Hi there,
>I created a position on two computers(P 3-550 MHz and P 4-1400MHz)in Fritz 7
>-Gui(Queen against Rook),ý used no tablebases,timecontrol 40m in 40min.All
>engines(Fritz 7,Chess Tiger 14.0,Shredder 6.02,Junior 7,Crafty 18.14,Sos for
>Arena,Yace 0.99.56) found very quickly the mate(about in 15moves-20moves).
>Only The King 3.12d could not find the mate.
>His oponent was Fritz 7  with white pices and The King 3.12d was with black  .If
>anybody wants to try by itself-The position is here:
>   black to move !
>
>white: Kc2 Rd3
>
>black: Qd4 Ke5
>
>
>Best,


... not just in the endgame, it's the same throughout every game with TheKing.
CM / The King is a nifty piece of software whose only strength is based on smoke
and mirrors like fiddling with the system settings, manipulating and grabbing up
system resources and hiding such API functions and covering their tracks what
makes them difficult to trace and that's why TheKing apparently seems to be
invincible but that is nothing to do with chess playing strength.
This is probably done in order to make the CM buyers not feel disappointed.
Please note that using the Auto 282 device to connect 2 PC's is just as unfair
as playing on 1 PC because that device is manipulated as well. The only fair
competition against The King is playing manually on 2 different PS's and
entering the moves by hand, and even then you can still run other apps on the PC
of The King's opponent what is not possible on The King's PC. Thus it's
impossible to rename / delete TheKing.exe after closing CM8000.
TheKing.exe never stops running unless you kill it with Pview.
Some tracing / spying tools you will find here : http://protools.cjb.net/



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