Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:42:02 07/27/99
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On July 27, 1999 at 00:04:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On July 26, 1999 at 21:59:28, Gustavo Pereira wrote:
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>>In this position from Kasparov-Topalov in Hoogovens 99 the new Crafty16.13 from
>>Chessbase literally hangs...
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>>3r3r/1R3p1p/6p1/1p6/2q5/5PPB/1Q5P/1K1k4 w - - 0 1
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>>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?
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><sigh>.. I just fixed this in 16.14. This position has a slightly worse
>king safety evaluation than anything anticipated, and it blew a subscript
>that I was _sure_ was 'safe'. :)
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<snort> Just when Crafty thought it's position couldn't possibly get any worse,
it did? :-))
Albert Silver
>16.14 source is now out, and executables will follow soon...
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>>Anyway, the move played by Kasparov is 36. Bf1!!
>>Complete and utter shredding by the Champ ;)
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>>PS: At first I thought it was a problem in the newly released engines, but
>>CometB04 doesn't have this problem.
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