Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:46:20 02/04/00
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On February 04, 2000 at 08:13:36, Bernhard Bauer wrote: >On February 04, 2000 at 05:33:53, Georg Langrath wrote: > >Hi George, > >>3n4/8/pppN4/k7/2P5/1K6/P7/8 w >> >>About this position. Fritz 5.32 can't find this mate in three. Fritz 6 can find >>it in time mode, but not in analyze mode. In my opinion that is an ugly bug. > >you are perfectly right, of course. > >> >>Then somebody says that it is a null-move problem. Then no more with that. When >>it is a null-move problem is seems as it is acceptable in the world of >>chesscomputers and no more to add. In my opinion it is still very ugly that a >>modern chesscomputer can't find a mate in three. >> > >It's a general attitude in the computerchess comunity not to deal with null move >problems. If a programmer implements the null move technique it's programs >strength will considerably rise. Now null move problems will no longer be >detected - they do no longer exist to the program. So the programmer tends to >think that null move problems exist only in studies, but he wants his program to >play reasonable chess. That's something different, for him. > >Yes, it's ugly. But it's not the computer, it's the software. >You may consider Crafty. It solves your position easyly. >This has been done by other posters. >Kind regards >Bernhard Ditto with Chessmaster. It finds the mate almost instantly. jm
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