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Just to confirm what some other people have noted: 

I've seen gnuchess-4.0 give up a mate in 1 when better moves were
available many times. Usually it's losing pretty badly, but often it
could do as well as losing in 3 or 4. I don't think this is new to
version 4.0, though.  I've seen 3.1 do that sort of thing a lot too.
My vague impression so far has been that 4.0 is playing a little
better than 3.1, but that could be due to many factors including just
the opening book corrections.

Is anybody interested in seeing these (help) mate in 1 positions? I
haven't been collecting them, but if someone's interested I could
record the game whenever I find them.

Another phenomenon I've seen is that gnuchess occasionally goes
berzerk, making really bad moves as if it were trying to lose. That's
almost always after taking back moves and such, though.

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