Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 18:54:19 03/27/05
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On March 27, 2005 at 19:18:56, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >Bob, perhaps sometimes you pay too little attention to some comments. Vincent >mentioned, that he used Crafty without TBs. PVs he has shown seem to indicate, >that Crafty's eval misevaluates some KPK positions as win, when they are draw. >Vincent said exactly this in a former post. > >I almost never get such bug reports for my engine. I'd be very happy for them. I >myself reported clear Crafty problems in the past. Answers were a bit like: "In >99.9% of the cases 0.0 eval for KRB-KR is correct". It is not the case. More >subtle problems were pointed out. I think, only after a really obvious problem >in Peter Bergers Junior-Crafty time/hardware-odds games, where the same problem >showed, Bob did some fix. > >Mike, Vincent clearly has said, that he tried without TBs. Of course, with >correct TBs the "c6-problem" will vanish. If Bob does not accept CB-native >Crafty, he should not allow it, instead of just using it as an excuse. I guess, >Mathias Feist is creating the CB-native engines. He is most probably doing a >very good job with it. If there is something strange there, it might be >interesting for those, who try to improve Crafty. > >Regards, >Dieter I believe Vincent was testing the wrong position or somehow there was confusion over the problem. http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?418579 Best, Michael
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