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Subject: Re: Is DJ using the endgame tablebases in Dortmund?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 01:03:28 07/11/00

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On July 11, 2000 at 03:43:14, Victor Valenzia wrote:

>On July 11, 2000 at 03:04:20, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>I'm sure it is.  It's up against some very heavy duty Chessplayers.  They
>>wouldn't send it in there without all it's weapons.
>>
>>Pete
>
>I might be mistaken, but I don't think that Fritz was allowed to use the endgame
>tablebases in the Dutch Championship.  So it is more a question of what the
>opponents agreed to, because of course the DJ team would use the tablebases if
>there was no objection.

Tempest in a teapot if there ever was one (if indeed, it was a real issue).
Endgame tablebase files cause the program to play perfect chess when the board
has that number of pieces.  But in real life, few games get that far and they
add 50 ELO tops.



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