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Subject: Re: There goes the surprise ...

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 06:52:54 12/01/01

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On November 30, 2001 at 18:59:45, Bertil Eklund wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I can't tell for sure if it is a problem with this match, but that has been
>known for a long time that the matches are played with the four Turbo-Cds from
>Chessbase and some programs handle this wright and some don't. I haven't seen
>this problem in about 200 games with the Tigers but Paul has seen it in several
>games. The main reason that the Tigers (eventually) miss the first place is the
>missing knowledge, that rook and bishop and rook and knight vs rook can't win in
>most endgames. I have seen the Tigers incorrectly exchange down to these
>endgames in several (in fact surprisingigly often) cases.

So, do you think that Tiger would exchange IF Tiger had ALL TBs and would see
that this 5-man is draw?

>Note that the above
>problem is correctly handled by several engines in example Crafty.

I can implement the code for mating with b+n or I can let it out and say "the
TBs solve this". Christophe obviously did the 2nd, who is to blame?

>It is always
>possible for the programmers to recommend the settings if they for example don't
>want us to use the tbs or recommend other settings. Hopefully before the matches
>and not afterwards.
>
>Bertil



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