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

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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