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Gothic Vortex -- An 80-bit Gothic Chess EngineA computer program . Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Ed Trice wrote on Thu, Aug 31, 2006 06:06 PM UTC:
Here is a link to a page with some of the more interesting endgame database
positions that have been 'mined' so far. The reason Gothic Vortex is so
strong in the endgame is that these positions, when encountered during the
search, are fed back down the game tree. 

http://www.gothicchess.com/javascript_endings.html

So, Vortex can see that 'Mate in 268' position from a distance if it is
playing in a Queen + Pawn endgame. In the case with SMIRF, it saw a very
long win for 2 pawns over a Knight, even when the material on the board
was 6 pawns for black and 1 Knight + 3 pawns for white.