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Subject: Re: crafty 16.3 - something broken in K and P endgames?

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 07:49:35 01/31/99

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On January 31, 1999 at 02:43:23, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote:

>On January 30, 1999 at 23:54:15, James B. Shearer wrote:
>
>>       I was playing Fitter on ICC and was surprised when it let me escape with
>>a draw in a K and P endgame.  I checked the key position afterwards with crafty
>>16.3 (on a 233 k6 PC).  Crafty 16.3 takes 2 hours to find the winning move, h4,
>>at ply 16 (see log below).  On the other hand crafty 15.15 finds h4 in 8 seconds
>>at ply 10.  Fritz 4 also finds h4 in a few seconds.  Looks like you may have
>>broken something.
>>                                James B. Shearer
><snip>
>>Crafty v16.3
>>
>>
>>
If you are talking about Crafty 16.3 supplied by Chessbase to run inside the
Fritz GUI i'm not surprised.  It's a dud !  I have not checked Crafty 16.3 from
Bob's site but the one from Chessbase lost to Fritz 5.32 by 41-9.  Crafty 16.2
seems to be at least 100 points stronger.
Jim Walker



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