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Gnu 4.0 is too hasty..

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From: Henk Van Wulpen
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 15:08
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Why does GnuChess make a move after 100 minutes when I chose the option
<1 move in 999 minutes> ????? I wanted it to find a mate in 6
but it always stops searching !! This should be considered as a bug, 
in my opinion.

Another indication that the time control of GnuChess must have bugs in
it was in the following ICS-match that went between Norm and Gnuchess.

# xboard game file -- Wed Sep 22 13:52:33 1993
        Norm vs. gnufour
        algebraic
1. e4 (0:00)  c6 (0:01)
2. d4 (0:00)  d5 (0:04)
3. exd5 (0:01)  cxd5 (0:03)
4. c4 (0:00)  Nf6 (0:01)
5. Nc3 (0:00)  e6 (0:01)
6. Nf3 (0:00)  Be7 (0:01)
7. cxd5 (0:15)  Nxd5 (0:01)
8. Bb5 (0:15)  Bd7 (0:01)
9. Bxd7 (0:15)  Qxd7 (0:01)
10. Ne5 (0:15)  Nxc3 (0:02)
11. bxc3 (0:15)  Qd5 (0:01)
12. Qg4 (0:11)  Bf6 (0:08)
13. c4 (0:11)  Qd6 (0:15)
14. c5 (0:12)  Qd5 (0:13)
15. Nf3 (0:15)  Nc6 (0:08)
16. Be3 (0:15)  0-0-0 (0:09)
17. Rd1 (0:11)  Qc4 (0:06)
18. Rd2 (0:15)  Rd5 (0:27)
19. h3 (0:15)  Nb4 (0:05)
20. Qg3 (0:16)  Nd3 (0:26)
21. Kd1 (0:15)  Qc1 (0:22)
22. Ke2 (0:16)  Qxh1 (0:06)
23. Rxd3 (0:11)  Qa1 (0:11)
24. Rd2 (0:12)  Rhd8 (0:23)
25. Qf4 (0:14)  Qc1 (0:15)
26. Qg3 (0:15)  R8d7 (0:12)
27. Qg4 (0:14)  h6 (0:15)
28. Qg3 (0:14)  Qc4 (0:10)
29. Ke1 (0:14)  Qc3 (0:08)
30. Kf1 (0:14)  e5 (0:13)
31. dxe5 (0:11)  Bxe5 (0:07)
32. Nxe5 (0:10)  Qc1 (0:11)
33. Ke2 (0:14)  Rxd2 (0:45)
34. Bxd2 (0:14)  Rxd2 (0:38)
35. Kf3 (0:14)  Rd4 (0:10)
36. Qg4 (0:33)  Rxg4 (0:21)
37. Nxg4 (0:11)  Qxc5 (0:07)
38. Ne3 (0:14)  Qa5 (0:06)
39. Ke4 (0:14)  Qxa2 (0:06)
40. f3 (0:12)  b5 (0:06)
41. Kd3 (0:13)  b4 (0:09)
42. g3 (0:13)  b3 (1:14)
43. Nc4 (0:16)  b2 (0:56)
44. Nd2 (0:13)  

And at this point gnufour suddenly started to think and think and thought
for over 5 minutes... Result : Norm won on time, while GnuChess was a full
piece ahead and about to promote its pawn ! As you may remember I posted
something similar a couple of days ago.

	Henk.
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Subject: Gnu 4.0 is too hasty..
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