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Subject: Re: WCCC Report, After Round 3

Author: blass uri

Date: 02:20:52 06/16/99

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On June 16, 1999 at 04:42:12, Harald Faber wrote:

>On June 15, 1999 at 18:18:45, Tom King wrote:
>
>>>The 3rd round was high drama.  I'm told MChess made a huge blunder in an ending
>>>to go from like +3 to dead lost in a single move.  Junior won against CilkChess
>>
>>I know the Mchess result, and of course I'm happy as larry. What happened then,
>>was it a real blunder/bug, or a horizon thing?
>
>It was certainly a horizon. In that position there was no way out, MCP just
>needed some more time/plys to realize that the end is near.
>I have seen this several times, programs have problems evaluating passed pawns.
>Anyway, MCP is not the only one... :-)

I looked at  the game and did not see +3 evaluation.

what was the losing mistake of MCP in this game?
can you post the relevant position or the number of move (I am not going to
analyze every move from the end of the game for a long time to discover it)

Uri



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