Author: José Carlos
Date: 11:11:34 03/28/02
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On March 28, 2002 at 14:00:39, Sergei Smith wrote: >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/ An example of nicely elaborated troll. Thanks Sergei for providing this example. josé C.
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