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Subject: Re: Importance of TBs once more!

Author: blass uri

Date: 02:54:00 10/13/98

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On October 13, 1998 at 04:34:00, Amir Ban wrote:

>On October 13, 1998 at 02:12:24, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>In SSDF game archive there is 5834 games. In 21 games there is KQ-KR ending.
>>And 20 of these were won by Q side WITHOUT any use of TBs! Quite surprising -
>>isn't this normally considered as difficult ending?
>
>I've never seen this ending in a computer-computer game where the side with the
>queen failed to win, at any time control.
>
>This endgame is quite easy for a computer.

Is it easy when the defendor use tablebases?

I found that the defendor without tablebases(when the defendor is a computer
program) may miss a simple draw by perpetual check in positions when there is
black queen at f2 and white king at h1.

Uri
>
>Amir

• Re: Importance of TBs once more!(an example to mistake of computer) blass uri 03:05:55 10/13/98
  • Re: Importance of TBs once more!(an example to mistake of computer) Bernhard Bauer 04:34:46 10/13/98
    • Re: Importance of TBs once more! (problem with my crafty15.20) blass uri 07:24:30 10/14/98
      • Re: my crafty discovers the draw but why is it different from yours? blass uri 07:32:21 10/14/98
    • Re: Importance of TBs once more!(an example to mistake of computer) blass uri 08:23:41 10/13/98
      • Re: Importance of TBs once more!(an example to mistake of computer) Robert Hyatt 09:43:51 10/13/98
  • Re: Importance of TBs once more!(an example to mistake of computer) Howard Exner 03:48:42 10/13/98

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