Author: George Tsavdaris
Date: 02:24:34 06/14/03
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On June 14, 2003 at 04:59:09, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >English: >We are going to start a long tournament at 120'/60 under the conditions >mentioned below. As you will see, we want to merely test the strength of the >engines. Therefore, the remis.ctg will be used instead of the own books. And >book learning is of course deactivated. Furthermore, the programs will have no >access to the EGTB so that we can see the proper endgame knowledge of the >engines. Hints about the outcome of this tournament are welcome. We are >publishing first results after 10 rounds. > I think not letting programs have access to endgame tablebases is clearly wrong! Because tablebases have been created for using them with engines, to improve their endgame play. And furthermore some programmers may not include code for some positions, because with the help of EGTB the engine will play properly. I honestly don't understand why you decided that. It's like not letting in a human tournament, the people to have some advice from their coach or not letting them to read the new book from Kasparov about endgames, because you want to see their real strength. Because if Shredder 7.04 for example is able to play the endgame with 2710 ELO and Chess Tiger with 2690 with the help of EGTB and without EGTB Shredder would play it with 2680 and CT with 2675 then we have an unfair competition if we wont let engines use EGTB.
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