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Subject: Re: Shredder don't know how to promote pawn?

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 05:03:52 12/05/02

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On December 05, 2002 at 07:51:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 05, 2002 at 07:19:51, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>Probably, but no excuse for pro program!
>
>Bullsh*t.
>
>AFAIK Shredder normally puts out a BIG warning when using
>the autoplayer that you should never run with incomplete
>tablebases.
>
>So effectively the tester in question must have knowningly
>run it knowing it was crippled. Very bad points for SSDF
>here.
>
>Some programs have a workaround that makes the ugliest
>appearances of this problem go away. But that doesn't
>fix the problem - it still occurs everywhere else in the
>search tree. I think it's better to warn the user there
>is a problem than to hide it.
>
>--
>GCP

I disagree. Program should handle this queen promotion without 8 GB of TBs!
What a waste of data storage.

Jouni

• Re: Shredder don't know how to promote pawn? Richard Pijl 05:21:48 12/05/02
  • Re: Shredder don't know how to promote pawn? Georg v. Zimmermann 05:45:20 12/05/02
• Re: Shredder don't know how to promote pawn? Gian-Carlo Pascutto 05:07:58 12/05/02

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