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Subject: Re: Egtb mates and

Author: Paul

Date: 06:07:30 02/04/01

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On February 04, 2001 at 08:27:24, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On February 02, 2001 at 21:10:54, Paul wrote:
>
>[I wrote something wrong]
>>>I think, especially with EGTB mates, it is quite possible
>>>that it is not an upper limit, and that with higher depth the opponent may
>>>by able to find a refutation, that delays the mate.
>
>...
>
>>Is there a difference according to you between 'normal' mates found by a search
>>without using EGTB's, and mates found by a search that is using EGTB's? If so,
>>what? And if not, then normal non-EGTB-search-mates are not an upper bound?
>
>The above was obviously wrong, and I was seriously confused - sorry. After
>thinking another while about this, I have no idea anymore, how I came to the
>idea above ...
>
>As also confirmed by Robert Hyatt, the mate score should allways be exact
>or an upper bound.

Ok, thanks Dieter ... and I'm sorry I confused you, I have that effect on people
sometimes. :) Let's agree that this is the last time that we apologize to each
other, ok ;?)

See ya,
Paul



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