Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 19:39:23 05/13/05
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On May 13, 2005 at 13:39:00, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 12, 2005 at 21:46:14, Komputer Korner wrote: > >>If you hang Shredder9 any time either by making the mistake of pressing the X >>button in the top right korner or else by pressing CTRL-Alt-Delete when >>Shredder9 is calculating, Shredder9 refuses to shut down. It does not behave >>like a well mannered Windows program is supposed to. In the above cases, you >>have to reboot the computer because Shedder9 will keep creating clones of itself >>to prevent it from being shut down abnormally. > >Chessbase? UCI? >I have never had any problem. I use UCI exclusively. Sometimes under the >Shredder classic interface and sometimes under other interfaces. > >>Another small bug I found is that >>it often will report a mate in 150 when it has a winning advantage. I suppose >>the programmer's sense of humour is at work here, but these bugs should be >>corrected. > >That is not a defect. In fact, if it does checkmate in 150 moves or less, then >it was surely correct. Chess programs do not report minimum distance to mate >like a chess solver. They report "Mate in AT MOST <n>". > >Now, if later on Shredder says "Mate in 300" then there might be a bug because >it should not lose a close mate and switch to a farther one. > You meant "Chess programs DO NOT report maximum distance to mate" However they do. almost all of the best ones do including Fritz,Shredder..etc They don't bother with a nonsensical mate in 150 forecast.
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