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Subject: Re: Endgame tables for Tiger.

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 12:41:12 11/22/00

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On November 22, 2000 at 15:16:17, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:

>So our conclusion is:
>
>Maybe the Lokasoft engine uses tablebases, but it could also be the Edwards,
>instead of the Thompson. Could also be hard coded. Yet it could be that the
>Lokasoft engine doesn't use them at all.
>
>About Rebel Tiger, maybe they do use the tablebases, but not in the sense of
>"using" them, but otherwise. Maybe The former Rebel Tiger did, maybe it didn't.
>Maybe they will, but only on a specified weekday, say friday.

It's quite definite by now that the Tiger engines (G and R) don't use
tablebases, but relies on hard coding (or is it hardcoding?). As an opposite the
Lokasoft engine does use tablebases. And furthermore it's possible to use
different types, eg. Thompson one week and Edwards the next. Variety is nice.

But I agree it would be a good idea with a Tiger Decade engine that uses
tablebases on Fridays, but refuses to partake in such an activity Saturday
morning. A collector's item indeed.

Mogens.



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