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Subject: Re: ... the FEG bug

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:19:57 12/15/02

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On December 14, 2002 at 18:11:19, GuyHaworth wrote:

>
>Excellent work by Marc, both in trailblazing on 6-man P-endgames and in being
>alive to the 'KNNK' problem as flagged up by one or more endgame studies.
>
>Sympathies to anyone, including Marc, who is having to redo a fair bit of work.
>
>I am not clear whether:
>
>- all 'maxDTM = 1' situations create the bug, and
>- all these situations have been covered, and
>- whether it is now asserted that FEG is bug-free
>
>A verification check independent of the original generation code is the best
>confirmation that all is ok.  Where Eugene's tables are available, a serial scan
>of FEG checking against EN's results would be adequate, as EN's EGTs have been
>verified.
>
>g

To answer your questions:

- all 'maxDTM = 1' situations were affected by the bug,
- all of them by the same single bug,
- existence of other bugs has not been proven, yet. :-)

jm



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