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Subject: Re: There goes the surprise ...

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 10:18:47 12/01/01

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On December 01, 2001 at 12:55:18, Uri Blass wrote:

>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


If so Tiger still plays the good 87.b8=Q (1-0) and not 87.Ra6+ (draw).

Ed



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