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Subject: Re: Prblem with EGTBs

Author: James Long

Date: 18:09:18 02/24/99

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On February 24, 1999 at 21:06:11, James Long wrote:

>
>I'm seeing another problem using the 4 man tb's.
>
>When I set up this position:
>
>7k/7p/8/8/8/8/5KP1/8 w - - 0 1
>
>and start the search, the result is "draw," the
>move is g3.
>
>As soon as the move gxh5 is made, the score
>is "mate in 25."
>
>At this point the white king abandons the pawn
>and goes for a stroll, but the score still
>reflects a mate.
>
>The black king doesn't capture, even though
>he could.  The pawn promotes and the black
>king is eventually mated.
>
>I'm validating the tablebases now, but I think
>something strange must be happening in my search.
>
>Frustrating. :-\
>
>Anybody else seen something like this ?
>
>BTW - it's not the null move.  I disabled them
>and the results were the same.
>
>--
>James


Turns out there are error with the tb's.
"Unable to read krkr.nbw.emd - file broken."

I just created them!  Wonder what happened...

--
James




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