Author: Ryan B.
Date: 21:27:48 12/02/05
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On December 02, 2005 at 23:40:26, Daniel Shawul wrote: >On December 02, 2005 at 10:19:48, F. Huber wrote: > >>On December 02, 2005 at 09:25:43, Eelco de Groot wrote: >> >>>Hello Ryan, >>> >>>Thanks for the Gambit Fruit Beta 4b! I could not seem to get the Scorpio >>>bitbases to work yet in ChessPartner interface. The egbbdll.dll seems to be in >>>use when Gambit Fruit is running, it is listed in Systeminfo as loaded module >>>and I could not remove when I wanted to try a reinstall the .rar file with >>>bitbases. Gambit Fruit beta was still running, so I think it did use the dll. >>> >>>I could not however see any changes in the analysis of simple positions, >>>analyzing a position entered in CP, and for instance the engine does not find >>>any mate scores in a typical position with lone King against two Bishops. Could >>>it be a operating system thing? I have Windows XP with service pack 2 installed. >>>Do you maybe have an idea what it could be? >>> >>> Regards, Eelco >>> >>>[D]4k3/8/8/8/8/8/8/4KBB1 w - - 0 1 >> >>Hi Eelco, >> >>the Scorpio bitbases are of course NOT complete - the file ´kbbk.dat´ you would >>need for the position above is not included. >>Try e.g. any position with bishop and pawn (i.e. ´kbpk´) and you´ll see that >>the bitbase actually are working. >> >>But what´s a bit strange: I also don´t get any mate scores but simply an >>evaluation about 40..60 !? >> > I see that Ryan multiplied the score the dll gives him by 5. >This is not knowledgeable scoring according to E.Heinz. As you pointed out, >the kbbk is not included because it is trivial and any engine will give +7.0 >score easily. So to give +40 for a won kbpk is not a good idea as it favours >this one over kbbk for no reason. >daniel > >>Regards, >>Franz. Sorry, I did that for testing and should have changed it before release. I will fix it for the next vesion.
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