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

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 01:47:07 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.

More or less. Frans himself proposed to disable the endgamebases to avoid a
Fritz-can-lookup-everything-but-I'm-not-allowed-to-use-books discussion.

Tony

>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.
>
>Victor



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