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Subject: Re: Crafty endgame position

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 15:08:53 04/08/02

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On April 08, 2002 at 16:49:22, Michael Fuhrmann wrote:

>The position arose in a game with Yace (black), which scored it about the same
>as Crafty. Guess this is not an uncommon problem for engines. Tnx for
>investigating and letting us know the details of what you discovered.

Indeed, they show similar scores, but for different reasons. Yace just is not
brave enough (yet), to give a draw score, when an unpassed knight pawn is on the
board. This, to avoid the possibility falling into an exception like in the
position Uri showed in this thread.

Reagards,
Dieter



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