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Subject: Re: Pharaon 3.1 beta KHS

Author: Graham Banks

Date: 13:35:02 01/01/05

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On January 01, 2005 at 16:14:38, Karl-Heinz Söntges wrote:

>I am testing now Pharaon 3.1 beta KHS.
>
>This version has no more time bug on  Dell Inspiron 5150 Intel mobile !
>
>Franck Zibi communicated the following to this beta.
>
>The last sentence might be interesting for all.
>
>C O P Y
>"
>The version I sent to you is nearly the same as the
>official Pharaon v3.1 .
>
>The main difference is a MAJOR BUG correction in
>threefold draw by repetition detection.
>In several drawing games,
>instead of playing 3 times the same move to get a
>draw,
>it plays only 2 times the same move, and a big blunder
>instead of the third move...
>
>I think this bug alone has weaken Pharaon v3.1 by
>about 30 elo points.
>
>This bug was not present in Pharaon beta v3.0 ,
>that's why the beta was playing much better then v3.1
>(winning the Chess War V tournament and scoring 50% in
>the super strong Graham Banks tournament).
>
>I plan to release this bug fix version very soon."
>
>Small test by me:
>Pharaon 3.1 beta KHS vs. Pharaon 3.1 (5'+5" , 96 MB hash, Computer.ctg)
>5,5 - 2,5 !


Hope it's ready for our next 40 moves in 2 hours tournament!

Graham.



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