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Subject: Re: rebel-tiger

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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