Author: Harald Faber
Date: 03:58:41 05/26/02
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On May 25, 2002 at 20:18:27, Peter Kappler wrote: >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 I don't know about that, fact is: on my machine, like always when someone like Ricardo complaints about a "BUG", everything is fine. 1.Ke2 (#6) Kh1 2.f1-Q+ (#5) and so on, no draw. In opposite to the SUPPOSED installed 5-man, *I* really have them installed. I wonder if these "bug" resports will ever end...I am feeling like Don Quixote...
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