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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