Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:48:02 08/21/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 21:19:26, Rory Nolan wrote: >On August 20, 2002 at 16:12:00, John Merlino wrote: > >>On August 20, 2002 at 16:01:52, Rory Nolan wrote: >> >>>In this position when Black plays Kf7 if I take the e pawn with my King Fritz >>>immediately takes the a6 pawn with the white queen???? This has been entirely >>>reproducable on my comp. I'm running XP on an athlon 1900+ >>>Anybody else get this? >>>Rory >>> >>>[D}8/r7/P2Q1k2/4p3/4K3/8/8/8 b - - 0 58 >> >>I don't have Fritz, but it sounds like it might be a bug due to you having an >>incomplete set of endgame databases? If you have all of the necessary files (or >>none of them at all), any program should play 59...Kg7, which leads to a Mate in >>9. All other moves lead to a faster mate for White. >> >>Just my (probably worthless) input.... >Yes but... >its performing an illegal move, taking its own pawn!!! >Rory Which can basically be described as "undefined behavior". It was just a guess as to the cause. Is it 100% repeatable? Have you tried the position without any access to tablebases? jm
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