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Subject: Re: When is the next CCT?

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 08:43:42 05/24/02

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On May 24, 2002 at 11:28:35, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On May 24, 2002 at 11:19:15, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>On May 24, 2002 at 11:08:12, David Rasmussen wrote:
>>
>>>The subject says it all... Chezzz is getting impatient...
>>>
>>>/David
>>
>>Sorry to distract from the original question:
>>
>>I don't want to rub it in, but if I remember right, Chezzz was the one who lost
>>a game from a won endgame. (with that queen move) Did you ever find out what the
>>reason was?
>>
>
>Maybe you're thinking of the game Sjeng - Chezzz in the 5th round? Chezzz only
>got a draw from a won endgame. I never found the bug, if any. The most important
>reason was that Chezzz didn't have EGTB's and Sjeng did. The key move was very
>hard for Chezzz to find, without EGTB's. Other engines found the move without
>EGTB's but didn't necesarily see why it was good. A week later, for the next
>weekend of CCT4, Chezzz had EGTB's. I didn't want it to happen again... :)
>
>There was also some hashing artifacts involved. Chezzz wouldn't make the same
>(wrong) move from a clear hash table.Instead it made another (wrong) move.
>
>I posted the key position some days after, and the main response seemed to be
>that it would be very difficult to solve it without EGTB's, special knowledge or
>luck.
>
>It was an exciting game. But really, Chezzz should have lost. It played a rotten
>opening. Which was why I rewrote major parts of my book code in that week too :)
>
>/David

Hm.. maybe it was not you then. The bad queen move (which gave check) allowed to
exchange the queens and the other side had a passed pawn which would queen in 2
move moves. Anyway, good luck in the next CCT for Chezzz! =)

Sargon



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