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Subject: Re: Pitiful results by theking.exe

Author: Axel Schumacher

Date: 20:32:22 04/29/04

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On April 29, 2004 at 21:35:27, Jason Kent wrote:

>I did a little experiment to see how easy it would be for chess programs to find
>mate with 2 bishops and a king vs king (all in starting positions).  All the
>engines I tried could find mate (playing both white and black) with 1 minute per
>side and tablebases and pondering off.
>
>Chessmaster was the only exception.  Chessmaster could find mate in its gui( a
>little slowly) but not in arena or winboard!!!

Then you set it up incorrectly. TheKing should give the same results under
Arena/WB compared to it's own GUI unless it's a tablebase issue (it doesn't use
the tablebases outside of the CM-GUI).

A.

• Re: Pitiful results by theking.exe John Merlino 21:27:15 04/29/04
  • IT ISNT A TB ISSUE!!! Jason Kent 07:08:59 04/30/04
    • Re: IT ISNT A TB ISSUE!!! John Merlino 08:04:58 04/30/04
      • Re: IT ISNT A TB ISSUE!!! Jason Kent 11:17:13 04/30/04
        • Re: IT ISNT A TB ISSUE!!! John Merlino 13:28:29 04/30/04
        • Re: IT ISNT A TB ISSUE!!! Axel Schumacher 13:10:46 04/30/04

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