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Subject: Re: Ooops

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:39:40 06/13/03

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On June 13, 2003 at 14:32:46, Aaron Tay wrote:

>On June 13, 2003 at 12:34:44, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On June 13, 2003 at 12:03:58, Michael Vox wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.clubkasparov.ru/521772350.html?462691585533321
>>>
>>>One could argue chess endgame tablebases play the endgame like god, but not this
>>>article....
>>>
>>>Enjoy :)
>>
>>
>>The articles show no example when the tablebases are wrong.
>>Some cases when the engines are wrong in 5 piece endgames are simply because the
>>engine did not use the 5 piece tablebases.
>
>Really look at position 6 and the comments
>
>"Most likely due to the defects of the 5-piece tablebase, both engines evaluate
>this position as winning for White - "
>
>If the engines were not using the 5-piece tablebases how can this be "due to the
>defects of the 5-piece tablebase"? Clearly the writer thinks that he is using 5
>pieces tablebases.

I think that the defects are incomplete 5-piece tablebases.
the writer seems to use only the tablebases that he got from chessbase when he
bought Fritz.

Uri



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