Author: Robin Smith
Date: 00:09:36 01/06/04
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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. Thanks. ><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 Hi Dadi, When I do the search from within the CCE version of CA it works fine. When I do the exact same search of the CCE database from within CA 7.1 it does not. Even if I first reset all the search criteria using "clear all criteria". It baffles me. Robin
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