Nice experiment and improvement!

I tried to run this on window7 x64 but it just can't initiate or start its program. Is there compatibility issues with win7 x64 ultimate?

Your welcome.

And thank you so much for explaining and attending this issue. I'm eagerly looking forward to any future updates on Houdini in your due time.

Thank you.

do you have a download link?

I've only seen this in completely drawn pawn endgames, can you confirm this was also your case?

Cheers,
Robert

Thank you for the explanation.

Since i am quite new on chess, i honestly don't know if this is a drawn pawn endgame. however, perhaps a picture of the scenario may help:
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Good day everyone, and specially to Robert. Just this hour, i encountered an error on Houdini 1.03a. I was again trying to defeat the chessmaster using this engine where in the end game i got this error: UCI implementation fault: illegal end of ponder search.

Shedder 11 could no long continue. I ...

Hello there Robert.

I never had the honor to personally thank the author of this fantastic engine. but at last i saw you here. thank you so much for this. I watched and downloaded every single release of your program since it became available. I also made private tournaments on my pc. Boy these are ...