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Subject: Re: tablebases Fritz problem

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 00:36:48 04/04/00

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On April 04, 2000 at 02:37:26, blass uri wrote:

>On April 04, 2000 at 02:17:14, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>
>
>>>
>>>You see the result: worthless.
>>>
>>>Suggestions:
>>>1) only use all 3-man and 4-man TBs and leave the few 5-man from the
>>>EG-Turbo-CDs out.
>>>2) get/buy/generate the 5-man with queen(s) because of pawn promotion
>>>3) get/buy/generate ALL 5-man so you get REAL and MAXIMUM performance.
>>>
>>>The EG-Turbo-CDs aren't worth a penny. "...contain the most important
>>>endgames..." is marketing rubbish as you can see yourself with such games.
>>
>>Hi!
>>
>>Totally nonsense, I have followed houndreds of games with the Turbo-CDs and
>>usually it works excellent. The CDs contain almost all important endings and if
>>you want to earn say a ½ elo or support Seagate or IBM you can fill them with
>>the other mostly obscure endgames.
>>
>>Bertil
>
>I think that the main reason that it work excellent is that the opponent usually
>resigns before going to endgame like KRQ vs KR
>
>Uri

Hi!

I haven't checked the above game but I haven't seen a program that can not win
with queen and rook against rook.

Bertil



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