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

Author: blass uri

Date: 04:23:15 07/11/00

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On July 11, 2000 at 05:58:38, Lin Harper wrote:

>>Fritz-can-lookup-everything-but-I'm-not-allowed-to-use-books
>   Would'nt this logic apply to the opening too? By this, I mean,
>  would'nt the Fritz opening book be required to be disabled too, for
>  the same (silly) reason?

No.
Humans can remember books but cannot remember tablebases.

I agree that asking computers not to use tablebases is silly but it is not the
same as asking them not to use opening books.

Uri



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