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Subject: Re: Crafty 17.5 problem

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 22:29:51 12/22/99

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On December 23, 1999 at 00:02:41, James T. Walker wrote:

>I just downloaded Crafty 17.5 from Bob's place and when testing it I ran into
>this problem with tablebases.
>
>8/8/6P1/8/8/7n/5k1n/7K b - - 0 1
>
>Crafty finds the mate in tablebases but on the 3rd move when I promote the pawn
>to a queen, Crafty shows,(Using Winboard) 3.g8=Q {Draw} 1/2-1/2 and does not
>make the mate move.  Crafty 17.1 did not have this problem.
>Jim Walker


Good find.  drawn.c screws up when one side doesn't have a pawn...  it will be
fixed in the next version, out shortly...



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