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

Author: blass uri

Date: 10:30:30 03/28/99

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On March 28, 1999 at 13:19:16, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>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?

No, it is a problem of Fritz5
Junior is using tablebases of Fritz5 in the ssdf games and it is not fair.

The original Junior5 does not use tablebases.

Uri



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