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Subject: Re: when tablebases cause blunders

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:19:27 05/29/02

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On May 29, 2002 at 02:34:34, Robin Smith wrote:

>The position is easily winning for white.  But tablebases cause programs to want
>to play 1.Rxf5?? after which there is a tablebase mate in 65 .... except the 50
>move rule kicks in first and the game ends up a draw.  Are there any programs
>that avoid this type of blunder?  [D] 5k2/3K4/8/R4b2/1R6/8/3B4/5r2 w - - 0 1

Yes

There are a lot of programs that do not use tablebases.

I guess that there may be also programs that do not evaluate mate in 65 from
tablebases as mate but only as +2.00 or something like this.

Uri



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