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Subject: Re: Hard endgame position

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 14:05:13 03/01/00

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On March 01, 2000 at 13:53:57, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 01, 2000 at 10:28:56, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>[snip]
>
>>Well, my computer resolved the fail high in twenty seconds or so.  Odd.
>
>You have a multiple CPU machine (I think Bernhard does as well).  I believe that
>sometimes you will get different move orderings because of this and solve early
>(or late).

Yes.

Occasionally Crafty does go on a "forever think", even on 1 cpu.  I don't recall
versions from say a year ago doing this.  I'm sure Bob would do something about
it if he knew of a good solution for it.  Something somewhere must be blowing up
somehow (as if that description helps. ;-)

Dave



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