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Subject: Re: Ktulu mirage vanishing and precociously marketed shams always coming...

Author: Olivier Deville

Date: 08:19:59 04/19/05

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On April 19, 2005 at 10:19:57, Alex Schmidt wrote:

>Hello Olivier,

Hello Alex

>
>you posted this message about Ktulu:
>
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?421354
>
>>1. Testing under some GUIs that hide bugs (no testing at all under Winboard!!)
>
>You where talking about one bug happening as WB engine under Arena but not under
>Winboard. So far I had no problems with Ktulu as UCI engine under Arena, and I
>didn't hear anything about problems under Winboard.
>

Maybe you will hear from them soon...

>>2. Asking the GUI to adjudicate games (hiding all the endgame bugs that happened
>>during my test match vs The King)
>
>Not useing Tablebases isn't a bug. What are the bugs you are talking about?
>

Ktulu being not able to mate in very simple endgames : K+Q vs K, etc.

>>3. Releasing a version that has some known bugs.
>
>Details?
>

The following message in the debug :

Error on performing a capture which its content is 6 and movpiece=4 (5,6)

is well known and has been reported in the beta versions. It should have been
much better to fix it before releasing Ktulu 7.0

>Best,
>Alex

Olivier



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