Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:13:23 08/19/99
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On August 18, 1999 at 20:35:00, Pete R. wrote: >I have a position as follows: white has king and rook, black has king knight and >pawn. I have the knpkr tablebase files. When it's black to move, the tablebase >returns the value instantly. However when it's white to move the program thinks >while doing tablebase hits, presumably on the 4 man set. Evidently I don't >understand tablebase files, so could someone explain to me what's going on here? >Knpkr only applies to white having knp?? Are you talking about crafty here? If so, look to see if you see "drawn at root, trying for swindle..." in the output, or else do "swindle off" to disable "swindle mode" If the position is a draw at the root, crafty tries a search to give you a chance to make a mistake and lose.
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