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Curious about the performance, I had Gnu Chess 4.0 play against
Psion Chess. I ran them under Windows 3.1 on a 486, so that I could
both run them in a window. I used the Easy mode for both programs
so that they would get (almost) all the processor time when it was
their move.

To my great surprise and joy, Gnu Chess outperformed Psion. Well, at
certain points I would have adjudicated the game to be a draw, but
Psion thought it was ahead and so avoided the repetition only to
worsen his position.

After about 200 (yes!) moves, Gnu Chess saw the mate (in 3, I believe),
but completely went berzerk then and didn't feel like ceasing to
evaluate positions anymore. After 10 minutes, I eventually forced it
to move and it was soon over with Psion.

So in fact, Psion would have won this game on time ! Kinda makes me
think of Ostrich in one of the ACM Computer Chess Tournaments where
due to a bug, it was unable to print out the mating move and then lost
for running out of time.

(I wanted to include the saved game here to, but unfortunately my
brother formatted the hard disk for a complete reinstallation :().


Another bug occurs after editing a position. Apparently one cannot
make the computer to move first. So you need to edit a slightly
different position in which you would make the first move to reach
the desired position.


	Henk.