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Subject: Crafty bugs (?)

Author: Andreas Stabel

Date: 01:57:58 08/24/98


I have discovered some small problems with crafty.

1) If a castling leads to a check, crafty does not output the + after
   the move, i.e. O-O is output and not O-O+.

2) Sometimes crafty does not output the right move list when in analyze
   mode. Enter crafty and then analyze mode. Type the
   moves a3, a6 and Nf3. If you now type history you only get the first
   moves. Below is the output:

               book   0.0s     29%    g6
analyze.Black(1): a6
a6
Black(1): a6
              clearing hash tables
              time surplus   0.00  time limit 30.00 (3:00)
              depth   time  score   variation (1)
                4->   0.29   0.00   2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6
                5     0.41   0.22   2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e4
                5->   0.99   0.22   2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e4
Nf3             6     0.99   1/19   2. Nf3
White(2): Nf3
analyze.White(2): White(2): Nf3
              clearing hash tables
              time surplus   0.00  time limit 30.00 (3:00)
              depth   time  score   variation (1)
hi              5     0.20   4/19   2. ... d5
Black(1): hi
    white       black
  1  a3          ...
                5     1.09  -0.02   2. ... d5 3. e3 Nc6 4. Bd3 Bg4
                5->   1.24  -0.02   2. ... d5 3. e3 Nc6 4. Bd3 Bg4
                6     2.28  -0.32   2. ... d5 3. e3 Bf5 4. Be2 e6 5. O-O

Note that before the "hi" is typed, crafty outputs "Black(1): " , but it
should have output "Black(2): ".

3) Finally I have a position where crafty does not find a mate in one.
   Is this a bug or is it nullmove related or something ?
   The FEN is: 7k/4N3/7K/4N3/8/8/b7/8 w - - 0 5
   The mating move is N5g6#. By the way this position arise from a nice
   problem with FEN: 6bk/8/3P2K1/4N3/8/8/2r5/1N6 w - - 0 1

I run crafty on a Windows 95 with EGTB, ROCK opening book and 24Mb (5Mb) hash.

Best regards
Andreas Stabel



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