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Subject: Re: Gambit Fruit 1.0 Beta 4b is out now

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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