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Subject: Re: Fritz - Tiger it's a draw

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 05:01:04 08/24/00

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On August 24, 2000 at 07:58:27, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 24, 2000 at 07:52:25, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>
>>On August 24, 2000 at 07:47:21, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On August 24, 2000 at 07:26:31, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 24, 2000 at 07:07:40, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Tiger and Fritz will draw
>>>>
>>>>It's a draw, yes. Too bad, since I think Tiger was clearly better in this game.
>>>
>>>
>>>The problem is that tiger does not understand that it is a draw and it says
>>>+1.92.
>>>
>>>Maybe tiger could avoid the position if it had better positional understanding.
>>
>>Or tablebases. Rebel and Tiger should use them, the sooner the better. I still
>>remember the game Rebel-Shredder...
>>
>>Enrique
>
>tablebases cannot help today to evaluate KRB vs KRP positions as a draw and
>programs need knowledge in order not to evaluate it as +2.

Of course they can. That's why Fritz, probing tablebases, evaluates the position
as 0.00, while Tiger shows something close to +2.

Enrique

>Uri
>>
>>>Uri



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