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Subject: Re: Neverending story with incomplete tablebases

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:24:34 08/17/03

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On August 17, 2003 at 05:11:28, Johan de Koning wrote:

>On August 16, 2003 at 05:17:26, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On August 16, 2003 at 04:47:34, Johan de Koning wrote:
>>
>>>>For someone who uses chess engines to do analysis, rather than just playing
>>>>games, clearing Ttables is a serious flaw.
>>>
>>>Remembering partial analysises randomly is also a serious flaw.
>>>User control is the keyword I think.
>>
>>This looks like a philosophical issue: 'do you want something that
>>sometimes work or rather something that never works at all'.
>
>You can probaly predict my philosophical reply. :-)
>
>Do you want a clock that sometimes runs 5 minutes late and sometimes 5 minutes
>early? Or do you want a clock that always runs 30 minutes late?

I prefer the second clock because I can find the right hour by substracting 30
minutes when I cannot know the right hour with the first clock.

 Or to use the
>universal car analogy again: do you want a car that sometimes runs?

If the only alternative is to have no car then I think that people are going
to buy it.

Uri



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