Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 18:06:41 10/13/00
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On October 13, 2000 at 08:24:22, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>>Tiger does not use tablebases. >>> >>> >>Which helped Yace save a few lost endings against Gambit Tiger on the ICC :))) >> >>JW > >I have actually never seen Tiger or Gambit Tiger draw an ending that it was up >in score. > >I also have noted several times on this board, that the engines like Tiger that >don't use tb's are my favorite. Knowledge is power. In one case, Rebel had something like +6 or more, but it was a tricky Q ending, Rebel transposed into a drawn QP+Q ending if I recall. Actually, knowledge is great, and tablebases are not a good excuse for having bad endgame play. But on the other hand, it is so easy to do tablebase coding now, there really isn't any excuse not to include it. JW
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