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Subject: Re: Program bug or Autoplayer woes?

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 01:01:39 11/12/99

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On November 12, 1999 at 02:00:32, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On November 11, 1999 at 20:18:18, Howard Exner wrote:
>
>>Here's the game which ended in a draw.[Event "SSDF 40-2"]
>>[Site "DK-Albertslund"]
>>[Date "1999.11.10"]
>>[Round "23"]
>>[White "Chess Tiger 12.0 dos K6-2 450,64"]
>>[Black "Shredder 2 P200MMX 24+8"]
>>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>>[WhiteElo "2645"]
>>[BlackElo "2503"]
>>[Annotator "Test: HC Lykke"]
>>
>>1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. f4 Nc6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bb5 e6 6. Bxc6+
>>bxc6 7. d3 Be7 8. e5 Nd5 9. Ne4 dxe5 10. Nxe5 Bb7 11. O-O
>>O-O 12. Qe2 f6 13. Nc4 Ba6 14. Bd2 Nb6 15. Na5 Qd7 16. Be3
>>Na4 17. Qf2 c4 18. b3 f5 19. Nd2 cxd3 20. bxa4 Bb4 21. Nab3
>>dxc2 22. Rfe1 Rad8 23. a3 Bc3 24. Nc5 Qe7 25. Nxa6 Bxa1 26.
>>Rxa1 Qxa3 27. Qe1 Qc3 28. Rc1 Rd3 29. Kf2 Qb2 30. Nc4 Qa2
>>31. Ne5 Rd1 32. Qc3 Rxc1 33. Bxc1 Qxa4 34. Nc5 Qa2 35. Ncd7
>>Re8 36. Qxc6 Rd8 37. Qc7 Ra8 38. Qb7 Rf8 39. Nxf8 Qa5 40.
>>Qf7+ Kh8 41. Nxe6 Qb6+ 42. Kg3 Qb3+ 43. Kf2 Qb6+ 44. Ke2
>>Qa6+ 45. Kf2 Qb6+ 1/2-1/2
>>
>>Would the game end the same from move 41 on if it were manually played?
>
>Rebel-Tiger (beta) plays of course 43.Kh4 announcing mate in 3.
>
>No 45.Kf2??? also but 45.Ke3 announcing mate in 5.
>
>Perhaps something is wrong with the PGN moves?
>
>Even in the end-position Rebel-Tiger (beta) still announces a
>mate.
>
>Ed
Hi!

In one of my testgames Tiger used 30(!!) moves for a simple mate in 4 or 5
moves. Tiger won the game but  after 10-15 moves with the same announcement mate
in 4 or 5 I began to wonder if it should be a draw according to the 50-moves
rule.

Bertil SSDF

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