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Subject: Re: Shredder bug?

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 17:18:27 05/25/02

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On May 25, 2002 at 18:52:10, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>In the following position against a guest:
>
>[D]8/8/8/8/7p/4k2P/5pK1/8 b - - 1 80
>
>BK-Chess (Shredder) allowed a draw by repetition by 80...Ke2 81. Kh1 Ke1 82. Kh2
>Ke2 83. Kh1 Ke1 84. Kh2 Ke2 85. Kh1. Supposedly it has all the 3, 4, 5 man EGTBs
>as per its finger notes.
>

I suspect it had KPPKP, but not KQPKP, which explains why it happily kept a
mate-in-X position on the board instead of queening the pawn (which would drop
the score to "only" +10).

Note that it still should have seen the correct mating line in the search, but
perhaps Shredder doesn't bother searching if it finds tablebase mates at the
root.

-Peter



>
>The following are the BK-Chess finger notes and the complete PGN:
>
>Statistics for BK-Chess(C)         On for: 8:49     Idle:    0
>
>          rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
>Bullet      2669  [8]    95    55    31   181   2680 (28-Jan-2002)
>Blitz       3120       2070  1502  1095  4667   3139 (27-Oct-2001)
>Standard    2633  [6]    61    24    37   122   2638 (22-Nov-2001)
>
> 1: GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!
> 2: Log on to ICC Saturday, April 6, 2pm server time and see Deep Shredder 6
>take on Russian Champion GM Sergey Volkov ina a 10 game rated 5 5 blitz match!
>Deep Shredder 6, Pentium III 800mhz x 2, 512 mb RAM.  All 3,4 and 5 man
>tablebases.
> 3: Visit me at http://www.bkchess.com and download the FREE Chess Academy
>Software
> 4: Current time control accepted is 3 0.  Playing unrated with anyone
>registered.  Playing rated with humans within 400 points.  Sorry, no rated games
>right now with computers while I work out some bugs.
> 5: No more games with unregistered players for now.  Apparently people have no
>respect for finger notes and continue to play 10-20 consecutive games without
>giving others a chance.  Please limit yourself to 4 consecutive games.  Thank
>you!
> 6: Using The Shredder Classic interface from ChessBase + Ebbi's winboard
>autoadapter.  This account can only play one time control because the software
>cannot detect match speed from the server.  3 0 is currently accepted.
> 7: I am a staunch conservative!  Liberals BEWARE!  My program will be
>especially harsh on you!
> 8: To those who advocate peace:  There is no peace with people like those who
>attacked us.  We are not going to bomb indiscriminantly and target civilians.
>We are out for a surgical, tactical campaign to root out all terrorist networks.
> 9: Bin Laden and his ilk do not want peace, they want the destruction of the
>western way of life in all free nations.
>10: ***************CHESS AUCTIONS!!!***************  Check out:
>http://user.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/user/bk_chess
>
> Email  : bkchess@bkchess.com
>
>
>[Event "ICC 3 0 u"]
>[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
>[Date "2002.05.25"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "guest372"]
>[Black "BK-Chess"]
>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>[ICCResult "Game drawn by repetition"]
>[BlackElo "3120"]
>[Opening "Sicilian: Richter-Rauzer, Rauzer attack, 7...a6"]
>[ECO "B66"]
>[NIC "SI.29"]
>[Time "18:33:35"]
>[TimeControl "180+0"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 a6 8.
>O-O-O h6 9. Be3 Nxd4 10. Bxd4 b5 11. f4 Be7 12. Qe3 O-O 13. Bxf6 Bxf6 14. e5
>Bh4 15. Rxd6 Qc7 16. Bd3 Bb7 17. Be4 Bxe4 18. Qxe4 Be7 19. Rc6 Qa7 20. Ne2
>Rad8 21. g3 Bc5 22. Kb1 Rd7 23. Nc1 Qa8 24. Re1 Bf2 25. Rf1 Rc7 26. Rxc7
>Qxe4 27. Rxf2 Rd8 28. Re2 Qd4 29. Rc6 Qg1 30. c4 Qh1 31. Rxa6 Rc8 32. b3
>bxc4 33. Rc2 c3 34. a4 Qe4 35. Rd6 Rb8 36. a5 g5 37. a6 gxf4 38. gxf4 Qxf4
>39. Rc6 Ra8 40. R2xc3 Qxe5 41. Rc8+ Kg7 42. Rxa8 Qxc3 43. Rd8 Qa5 44. Rd6
>Kf6 45. Nd3 Ke7 46. b4 Qa3 47. Rd4 Qxa6 48. Kb2 e5 49. Rd7+ Ke8 50. Nc5 Qc4
>51. Ka3 e4 52. Ka4 Qxc5 53. bxc5 Kxd7 54. Kb4 e3 55. Kc3 e2 56. Kd2 e1=Q+
>57. Kxe1 Kc6 58. Ke2 Kxc5 59. Ke3 Kd5 60. Kf4 Ke6 61. Ke4 h5 62. Kf4 Kf6 63.
>Ke4 Kg5 64. Kf3 Kf5 65. Ke3 Kg4 66. Kf2 f5 67. Kg2 Kf4 68. Kf2 Ke4 69. Ke2
>h4 70. Kf2 Kd3 71. h3 Ke4 72. Ke2 f4 73. Kf2 f3 74. Kf1 Kf5 75. Ke1 Ke5 76.
>Kf1 Ke4 77. Kf2 Kf4 78. Ke1 Ke3 79. Kf1 f2 80. Kg2 Ke2 81. Kh1 Ke1 82. Kh2
>Ke2 83. Kh1 Ke1 84. Kh2 Ke2 85. Kh1 {Game drawn by repetition} 1/2-1/2



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