Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 23:39:50 01/05/04
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On January 05, 2004 at 18:24:29, Dadi Jonsson wrote: >On January 05, 2004 at 17:04:17, Robin Smith wrote: > >>On January 05, 2004 at 11:34:57, Albert Silver wrote: >> >>>On January 04, 2004 at 22:10:34, Robin Smith wrote: >>> >>>>On January 04, 2004 at 09:44:39, Albert Silver wrote: >>> > >Interesting discussion. > ><snip> > >>Get "Comprehensive chess endings" (a database that contains _only_ endgames). >>Search for a specific number of pieces, and nothing else. Material of anything >>other than 2-32 pieces. You can try 3-32, or 8-8, doesn't matter. Anyway, it >>doesn't matter. You aren't meaning to say that CA is bug free, are you? I don't >>know of any complex but bug free program. >> > >I tried this on my copy of "Comprehensive chess endings" (which, by the way, is >an excellent tool for studying endgames). When I searched 8-8 I got 503 games >from the Averbakh database and 2837 games from the Examples database. When I >opened one of the games from the examples it took me directly to the position in >the game where the 8-8 material balance was on the board, so the search returned >what I was asking for. I wonder why you are having problems with this type of >search. My version of CCE is 1.00 (build 1). > >Dadi There was (is?) a bug in CA that would reflect this search. You had to ensure all other searchboxes was what you wanted no matter if they was marked as not use in the below checkbox-line. Eg. it seems to remember your old search criterie even if those was not selected. Maybe it help to start with 'clear all', I know I went into each box to check when I was trapped by this error. Odd Gunnar
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