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Subject: Re: What would be the ranking of Chess Tiger on the June list if...

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 14:45:01 06/15/01

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On June 15, 2001 at 14:29:28, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On June 15, 2001 at 08:35:35, Paul Petersson wrote:
>
>>On June 15, 2001 at 08:02:47, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On June 15, 2001 at 06:26:54, Paul Petersson wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 14, 2001 at 14:59:05, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>...these games had been taken into account 3 days ago?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>A more interesting question is what the ranking of CT14 would be if we had
>>>>tested it in the CP GUI like GT2! I'm pretty sure it would have done better than
>>>>the CB version.
>>>
>>>Why?
>>>
>>>It should do the same because the engine is the important thing and the GUI is
>>>totally unimportant.
>>>
>>
>>I'm not sure about that. I've seen several unexplainable losses/draws by
>>CT14/CB. Sometimes things go bad when it can't access all the 5-man TBs.
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>
>>>Uri
>
>
>
>Do you mean that in some of the SSDF matches Tiger did not have the FULL set of
>5 men tablebases?
>
Hi!

We use the endgame Turbo from Chessbase (4CDs) same for all programs, I have
seen Tiger draw winning endgames (luckily in speed matches) but Paul has seen it
in "rated" games. Some programs, like Crafty can handle this but unfortunately
not all programs.

Bertil
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>
>    Christophe



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