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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