Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 10:26:36 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). I guess you are right but I can't check it for the moment because my computers are occupied with tha match Gambit-SOS. BTW, I sent you a personal letter a minute ago. Bertil
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