Author: Bernhard Bauer
Date: 03:58:04 06/02/99
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On June 02, 1999 at 05:00:17, Dan Newman wrote: >Well, I tried mine out on these at 1 min / position on a P6/200 >and got the key move in 10 out of 16, but no mates. I then tried >them at 1/2 hr each and still got 10/16 and no mates. Finally, I >tried the first one for two hours -- still no mate... > >On the next to last (BWTC.0647) my program likes to force a >repetition draw all the way through the 18 ply search -- no >guarantee there isn't a mate though. > This position is so simple and nice that you should have a look at it and solve it yourselv. Not only your program fails, Crafty16.8 fails too. I guess your program depends heavily on null move? Oh, I'm missing the point again, sometimes I feel like a null-move-basher. But as we all know such positions do *never* apear in practice, so why care? And our programs are real grandmasters with elo > 2600 anyway, or not? Kind regards Bernhard >-Dan. > >PS. I noticed the EPD strings weren't quite standard: there >shouldn't be a semicolon directly after the EP target square, >but there should be one after the last "operation". My program >didn't seem to mind though...
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