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Subject: Re: There goes the surprise ...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:55:18 12/01/01

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On December 01, 2001 at 11:46:16, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On December 01, 2001 at 10:13:54, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>
>>On December 01, 2001 at 09:52:54, Harald Faber wrote:
>>
>>>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?
>>
>>The problem is that it exchanges down to in example rook and bishop vs rook and
>>pawn and believe it is winning.
>>I believe it is necessary to include this knowledge and for example wrong
>>coloured bishops in the programs otherwise they plays incorrectly when there is
>>one or more pieces included.
>
>
>I don't know how you have configured Tiger, but a correct configured Tiger
>plays 87.b8=Q (1-0) and not 87.Ra6+ (draw).
>
>Ed

I guess that tiger used the KRP vs KR but not the KRQ vs KR.

Uri



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