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help mate in 1

#5724
From: Paul Vaughan
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 20:22
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Here's a game with gnuchess-4.0 that looks pretty suspicous:

gnuchess 4p45 game
       score  depth   nodes  time                score  depth   nodes  time
 e2e4      0      0       0     0          c7c5    -19      0       0     0
 g1f3      0      0       0   200          b8c6    -44      0       0     0
 d2d4      0      0       0   200          c5d4    -56      0       0     0
 f3d4      0      0       0   100          g8f6    -34      0       0     0
 b1c3      0      0       0   200          d7d6    -30      0       0     0
 f1e2      0      0       0   200          e7e5    -19      0       0     0
 d4b3      0      0       0   100          f8e7     12      0       0     0
 e1g1      0      0       0   200          e8g8     -3      0       0     0
 c1e3      0      0       0   400          c8e6    -16      4   12015  1000
 f2f4      0      0       0  1200          d8d7     12      4    6008   500
 f4f5      0      0       0  2400          e6b3    -14      5    6009   500
 a2b3      0      0       0  1400          f8c8     -1      5    6008   500
 e2d3      0      0       0  2400          d6d5      1      4    9010   800
 e4d5      0      0       0  1000          c6b4   -390      4   22024  1300
 d3c4      0      0       0  2400          e7c5    -75      4   11012   800
 e3c5      0      0       0  1100          c8c5    -96      5   23024  1500
 d1e2      0      0       0  2200          d7d6    -58      4   19025  1400
 g2g4      0      0       0   500          h7h6     31      4   17020  1200
 h2h4      0      0       0   500          c5c8     41      4   17018  1200
 g4g5      0      0       0   600          h6g5     24      4   18019   900
 h4g5      0      0       0   300          f6d5      9      5   18019  1100
 c3d5      0      0       0  1400          b4d5     17      5   21022  1300
 a1d1      0      0       0   800          d6b6     90      5   28029  1300
 g1h2      0      0       0  2500          d5e3    164      5   26027  1300
 g5g6      0      0       0  2300          g8f8    149      5   28029  1200
 e2h5      0      0       0  3200          e3d1    171      3   16017   800
 f5f6      0      0       0  2500          b6e3    220      3   25026  1100
 h5h8  -9999      1      42     0         

                              =30300                                  =19700 
                           or -3 seconds left
								or 1:43 left
Black

There were many moves better than b6e3 available to gnuchess that
would have prevented the mate, at least for awhile. In fact, I was
worried about losing this one as white. You can see that the score
change is pretty radical.

gnuchess had 1:20 (as shown by xboard) left on its clock when it
committed the blunder in a 5 minute game. Unfortunately, I expect
random mode was on and the transposition table enabled.

BTW, I just realized that gnuchess is generating these files. It's
leaving them sitting in the executable directory under names like
CLp45.Jun11-145947B. Is it supposed to this?

I have applied no patches since the 4.0 release. The game was played
on a SUN 4/110 under xboard. I don't remember executing any commands
other than making moves. I believe my flag fell while I was sitting
with my jaw in my lap trying to figure out why his last move was so
bad--perhaps this is a feature? :-)
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Subject: help mate in 1
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