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Subject: Re: Chessmaster endgame blunder

Author: John Merlino

Date: 15:05:15 07/14/04

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On July 14, 2004 at 17:38:40, Mihaly Szalai wrote:

>On July 14, 2004 at 16:40:28, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>Sorry that I missed your mention of 51.bxa6. It appears that you are correct
>>about 50...Nxd4, but it looks like Chessmaster would have to get up to at least
>>depth 25 from that position to see that it is a worse move than 50...axb5. On my
>>AMD2500, this would likely take well over an hour.
>
>I found no engine with egtb probing playing 50...Nxd4.

Well, there you go -- Chessmaster 9000 does not probe the egtbs in the search.

jm

• Re: Chessmaster endgame blunder James T. Walker 06:55:45 07/15/04
• Re: Chessmaster endgame blunder John Merlino 15:06:00 07/14/04
  • Re: Chessmaster endgame blunder Mihaly Szalai 08:16:49 07/15/04
  • Re: Chessmaster endgame blunder Chris Welty 06:55:19 07/15/04

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