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Subject: Re: Crafty EGTB Bug

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:02:31 01/02/04

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On January 02, 2004 at 14:10:59, Luis Smith wrote:

>Someone posted this position in the Winboard forum
>
>[D]3r4/1K6/5N2/8/8/4k3/8/8 w - - 7 98
>
>This is what Crafty displays under analysis mode.
>
>depth=0 -327.39 1. Nh7 <EGTB>
>Nodes: 0 NPS: 0
>Time: 00:00:00.01
>
>If you disable EGTB's it displays one of the drawing moves.  However if you
>force it to play as black it plays Ng4+ one of the drawing moves.


I don't know what could cause this.  I set the position up and I get
the expected answer in analysis mode:

White(1): 3r4/1K6/5N2/8/8/4k3/8/8 w - - 7 98
1. Nh5 Rd1 2. Nf6 Ra1 3. Ng8 Rb1+ 4. Kc8 Ra1 5. Ne7 Rb1 6. Ng8 Ra1
White(1): an
Analyze Mode: type "exit" to terminate.
end-game phase
              clearing hash tables
              time surplus   0.00  time limit 22.50 (3:30)
              depth   time  score   variation (1)
                1     0.00  -0.58   1. Nh7
                1->   0.01  -0.58   1. Nh7
                2     0.02     --   1. Nh7
                2     0.03 -Mat14   1. Nh7 <EGTB>
                2     0.04     ++   1. Ng4+!!
                2     0.05   0.01   1. Ng4+ <EGTB>
                2->   0.06   0.01   1. Ng4+ <EGTB>
                3     0.06   0.01   1. Ng4+ <EGTB>
                3->   0.06   0.01   1. Ng4+ <EGTB>
                4     0.06   0.01   1. Ng4+ <EGTB>
                4->   0.06   0.01   1. Ng4+ <EGTB>
              time=0.06  cpu=0%  mat=-2  n=92  fh=100%  nps=10K
              ext-> chk=9 cap=0 pp=0 1rep=0 mate=0
              predicted=0  nodes=92  evals=1
              endgame tablebase-> probes=13  hits=13




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