Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 00:08:12 10/14/00
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On October 13, 2000 at 21:06:41, Jason Williamson wrote:
>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
It was tablebases or Gambit Tiger.
I have chosen to work on Gambit Tiger.
So yes, I have a really good excuse.
Christophe
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