Author: James Robertson
Date: 13:07:57 09/03/99
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On September 03, 1999 at 08:03:46, frank phillips wrote: >I thought I had understood how to implement Eugene's EGTBs, but may have been >overly optimistic. > >The databases are registered and return a number which seem to vary consistently >according to my perception of how many moves to mate in simple KRRk endings, but >in actual play against GNUChess in a KNBk ending the pieces just dance around >until a draw by 3 rep. So I must have messed up the conversation to my programs >mate scoring. > >The database returns numbers up to 127, -126. Are these ply or moves? Is the >score from the perspective of the side to move - whoever has the most pieces? > >Apologies for the simple questions but I could not find the answers in the >documentation. > >Frank You're not alone in having problems with the mate conversions; I had a heck of a time trying to convert the scores to my mate value. Eventually I succeeded and the pieces still danced around until I fixed several bugs in my search.... it is possible that is where your problem is. James
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