Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 21:44:51 07/15/03
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On July 15, 2003 at 23:18:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 15, 2003 at 22:05:59, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On July 15, 2003 at 15:21:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>Here is a position reached in a game on ICC between Crafty and an >>>unnamed opponent: >>> >>>[D]8/2k2p2/7p/ppPK4/6P1/P6P/8/8 w 0 1 >>> >> >>The above position was done by a program that obviously did not use the 5 man >>tablebases. The only program that I can find in the ones that I have that play >>c6 without tablebases is Tiger. All the others almost instantly go to Ke4. >> >>You were obviously playing a Tiger clone. Odd that it plays it though, and under >>all versions. ( Tiger, Gambit, Gambit Agg, Gambit Sui ). >> >>Nothing else seems to play it. Unless you played a private engine. > > > >A program needs to know that c6 loses without having endgame tables... > >IE crafty sees -1.0 quickly on my laptop with tables turned off. It goes >better and better for black as it gets deeper.. That is what I meant. Tiger can not see that c6 loses without tablebases. Every other program that I have tried sees the loss of c6 without the tablebases. Therefore you must have been playing a Tiger clone on ICC. That is a reasonable explanation.
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