Author: John Merlino
Date: 21:27:15 04/29/04
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On April 29, 2004 at 23:32:22, Axel Schumacher wrote: >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. It's a tablebase issue. The King does not use TBs in the search. When The King is inside the CM GUI and the position gets down to five men or less, the GUI takes over and feeds the engines the positions from the TBs (if that option is available to the personality that is playing the game). jm
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