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Subject: Re: Not using tablebases helped Junior5 to win a game in mclane's tourna

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 10:19:16 03/28/99

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On March 28, 1999 at 05:46:46, blass uri wrote:

>I looked in gambitsofrt forum
>and I found that Junior5 won Wchess2000 in mclane's tournament
>
>Junior got a drawn KQP vs KQ
>
>8/8/6Q1/3p4/1K1k4/8/8/7q b - - 0 1
>
>Junior5 did not use tablebases and played Qe1+
>
>Junior5 won after a mistake of wchess2000 (Kb5)
>
>Tablebases tell Junior5 to play Ke3? Qg5+ Ke2 and black is losing the pawn after
>Kc5.
>
>Uri

	That is what I call poor tablebase handling. Tablebases should never decrase
playing strength when they are probed at the root. Is this a problem of Junior?
or has something to do with the tablebases?



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