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Subject: Re: Ooops

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:34:10 06/15/03

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On June 14, 2003 at 19:04:01, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>On June 14, 2003 at 18:00:30, Robert Hyatt 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 author is an idiot.
>>
>>a 5 piece endgame _counts_ the two kings.  He is not counting them.
>>
>
>Speaking of which, why don't we call it "3 piece endgame"? After all, every
>chess player would call it that way.

No idea.  But its the way it has been done, so we are stuck with it...


>
>
>>He really thinks he is probing what we would call a 7 piece ending, which
>>is _years_ away from reality.



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