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Subject: Bug in Crafty16.13? (Was Problems with new Chessbase Crafty16.13)

Author: Gustavo Pereira

Date: 20:51:37 07/26/99

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On July 26, 1999 at 21:59:28, Gustavo Pereira wrote:

>In this position from Kasparov-Topalov in Hoogovens 99 the new Crafty16.13 from
>Chessbase literally hangs...
>
>3r3r/1R3p1p/6p1/1p6/2q5/5PPB/1Q5P/1K1k4 w - - 0 1
>
>It gets stuck on Bd7 showing an eval of #0 (mate in zero!) which is obviously a
>mistake.
>The moment I put it in multi-play analysis it works.
>Does anybody have the same problem?
>
>Anyway, the move played by Kasparov is   36. Bf1!!
>Complete and utter shredding by the Champ ;)
>
>
>PS: At first I thought it was a problem in the newly released engines, but
>CometB04 doesn't have this problem.

After reading some of the answers I decided to try all the Crafty16.13s I have,
Chessbase's, Dann's and Bob's.
All 3 versions have the same problem.
It looks as if the engine doesn't know what to do when it is about to be
mated...

All feedback welcome!

Gustavo Pereira
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