Author: Andreas Stabel
Date: 02:42:37 05/06/02
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On May 05, 2002 at 18:09:10, Heiner Marxen wrote: >The bug found by Vincent Vega a week ago, is fixed now, and available >through Chest's home page http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/chest.html . >The bugfix consists of one corrected source file "mate2.c": >http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/mate2.c > >The bug manifests in that Chest does not recognize the obvious mate-in-2 in >[D]8/8/8/8/8/8/4KP2/R1Qn3k w - - 0 1 >Without the bugfix above, the original Chest3.19 can be stopped to >exhibit the bug by the command line option "-a", but that slows down Chest. > >The original bug detection message was >http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?226522 >The followups also contain a description about the circumstances necessary >for the bug to occur. > >Happy problem solving! > >Heiner I have modified Dan Corbit's port to windows with the changes in mate2.c from Heiner Marxen. So if anybody wants an updated executable, they can email me at anst@dolphin.no I don't have a web site to put it in, but probably Dan will have a new version ready soon. I haven't tested the new version very well, but at least it now solves the mate in 2 it didn't before. Best regards Andreas Stabel
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