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Subject: crafty ver 19.3 [NT]

Author: Mridul Muralidharan

Date: 00:26:56 02/15/04

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On February 15, 2004 at 03:25:43, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:

>Hi,
>
>  I was trying to test the move generator of the new engine that I am writing
>and was making use of crafty to fix its bugs.
>Looks like there could be a potential bug with crafty itself in perft mode.
>
>I tried
>
>trace 5
>perft5
>
>
>and I get this sequence in the crafty output :
>
>Nf3 Nc6 e4 Nd4 Ke1e2
>
>[D] r1bqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/3nP3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq - 0 3
>
>The move Ke2 is illegal - moves into check.
>My understanding was that these moves should not figure out in perft.
>Am I correct here ?
>If yes ,
>then were can I get more acccurate perft generator - which can also show me the
>move trace in case I have to debug ?
>(This bug/feature in crafty makes it worthless for perft for me - the numbers
>are always wrong now - and so have to dig deeper to get actual count).
>
>Thanks in advance
>Mridul



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