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Subject: Re: Sometimes they go 'boom'

Author: John Merlino

Date: 11:18:38 09/20/02

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On September 20, 2002 at 13:30:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>[D]4b3/6p1/5p1p/5P1P/3kPK2/1p6/1P2B3/8 b - - 0 1
>
>My engine just managed to lose what looked like a dead-drawn
>endgame against a Crafty clone on ICC. I couldn't understand
>what happened. I still don't know exactly, but it looks like
>some kind of hashing/draw-by-rep/nullmove artifact ;)
>
>But my program doesn't seem to be the only one that
>gets funny on this position:

Here's what Chessmaster 9000 says on this position. Not sure if it is also
"funny":

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	3/7	-0.38	4743		1...Bc6 2.Bd1 Ba4 3.Be2 Be8 4.Bf3
					Bb5
0:00	4/8	-0.36	10780		1...Bc6 2.Bd1 Ba4 3.Kf3 Ke5 4.Ke3
					Be8 5.Bxb3 Bxh5
0:00	4/8	-0.43	19865		1...Bf7 2.Bd1 Bc4 3.Bg4 Bd3 4.Bd1
					Bc2 5.Bf3
0:00	5/9	-0.44	26752		1...Bf7 2.Bd1 Kd3 3.e5 fxe5+ 4.Kxe5
					Kd2 5.f6 Kxd1 6.fxg7 Bg8
0:00	6/10	-0.69	67861		1...Bf7 2.Bf3 Kd3 3.e5 fxe5+ 4.Kxe5
					Kc2 5.f6 gxf6+ 6.Kxf6 Kxb2 7.Kxf7
					Kc2
0:01	6/10	-1.48	98615		1...Ba4 2.Bf1 Bc6 3.Be2 Bxe4 4.Bb5
					Bd3 5.Be8 Bc4 6.Bc6 Be2
0:01	7/11	-0.97	152287		1...Ba4 2.Bf3 Kd3 3.e5 Kc2 4.e6
					Kxb2 5.Be4 Be8 6.Ke3 Bxh5 7.Kd4
0:02	8/12	-1.21	242560		1...Ba4 2.Bf3 Kd3 3.e5 Kc2 4.e6
					Kxb2 5.Be4 Be8 6.Ke3 Kc3 7.Bf3
0:05	9/13	-1.41	531277		1...Ba4 2.Bf3 Kd3 3.e5 Kc2 4.e6
					Kxb2 5.Be4 Ka1 6.Ke3 b2 7.Kd4 Be8
					8.Kc5 Bxh5
0:09	10/14	-1.21	969537		1...Ba4 2.Bf3 Kd3 3.e5 Kc2 4.e6
					Kxb2 5.Ke4 Kc1 6.Kd5 b2 7.Be4 Bb3+
					8.Kd6 Bc2 9.Bxc2 Kxc2
0:22	11/15	-1.41	2239357		1...Ba4 2.Kf3 Bc6 3.Kf4 Bxe4 4.Bb5
					Bd3 5.Be8 Bc4 6.Bd7 Kd5 7.Be6+
					Kc5 8.Bc8 Kd6 9.Bb7 Bd3
0:40	12/16	-1.52	4027500		1...Ba4 2.Kf3 Bc6 3.Kf4 Bxe4 4.Bb5
					Bc2 5.Be2 Bd3 6.Bf3 Bc4 7.Bg4 Bd5
					8.Bd1 Kd3 9.Bg4
1:52	13/17	-1.54	11346643	1...Ba4 2.Bd1 Kd3 3.e5 Kd2 4.Bf3
					Kc2 5.e6 Kxb2 6.Kg4 Kc1 7.Be4 b2
					8.Kh4 Bc6 9.Bd3 b1=Q 10.Bxb1 Kxb1
3:58	14/18	-1.56	23785267	1...Ba4 2.Bd1 Kd3 3.e5 Kd2 4.Bf3
					Kc2 5.e6 Kxb2 6.Kg3 Kc1 7.Be4 b2
					8.Kh4 Bc6 9.Bd3 b1=Q 10.Bxb1 Kxb1
					11.Kg4

jm



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