Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 00:22:50 10/15/00
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On October 14, 2000 at 03:08:12, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 Ok, I didn't mean it to be insulting. :) From the 2nd hand info we are getting, it sounds like you have another potential #1 on the SDDF list. Mainly, I was just commenting that rebel lost a few half points to Yace the other day due to its lack of TB. JW
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