Author: blass uri
Date: 12:25:31 03/26/99
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On March 26, 1999 at 14:14:28, Sylvain Renard wrote: >>As far as I know, the tables that Fritz is using only indicate "win for stronger >>side" or "not win for stronger side"... which is being interpreted as "draw". > > Yes, that's true. I have played automatical games between my program >Capture and some Fritz engines and I was astonished to see that in some KPRKR >endgames, Fritz loses his rook, converting a drawn endgame into a lost >endgame! But the mistake is to use a database which only tells that the >stronger side doesn't win. For most of these positions, any move will lead >to a draw, but in some situations, you can lose (the stronger side is in check >and moves the king without protecting his rook). > I don't see a simple way to use theses bases and avoid this problem (you >must add some "engine thinking" to the knowledge of the database, awful!). Fritz is using the tablebases only at the root so I do not understand what is the problem to add engine thinking to the knowledge of the database. It is enough to add some if then commands. Uri
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