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Subject: Re: To: Peter Berger

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 16:13:50 04/20/02

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On April 20, 2002 at 11:53:46, Christophe Theron wrote:

>
>I think that you are right and that the 50 moves rule is going to save Tiger
>here.
>
>As I told you in email, there is a bug in version 14.9. Tiger thinks this KRN/K
>endgame is actually a KRN/KR. So it uses the wrong knowledge here because of
>this bug and is not trying to push the king to the border to mate it.

Ah, I didn't understand this fully. I understood how Tiger wouldn't give up its
final pawn before but didn't realize that it would still think it is KRNKR even
after that.

>
>This bug is already fixed and will not exist anymore in the next release.
>
>However I believe that Tiger will get a 0 elo points increase with this fix,
>because when the bug happens the 50 moves rule will almost always save the day.
>

I am not sure - from the short sequence of moves seen in the end I'd think a
draw by repetition could be another possible outcome.

Anyway I agree it doesn't matter as you have fixed the problem( so additional
information not needed anymore), it is a minor problem anyway and with Uli's
offer to resign I'll try it only if my curiousity takes over and count it as a
win for the Tiger in the meantime.

Peter



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