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Subject: Re: There goes the surprise ...

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 14:27:31 12/01/01

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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:
>>
>>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?
>
>I think that most users play with the delivered 3 and 4 man tablebases. There
>are also a lot of users that plays with the four Turbo-cds from Chessbase or
>Millenium, in fact it is probably a houndred times more people that only use the
>standard tbs that is included with the programs.
>
>Bertil

Sorry to say that but it should be common knowledge that using incomplete
5-man-TBs produces such behaviour and therefore unrealistic results.
The "Endgame Turbo" garbage sold by Chessbase is such an incomplete collection.
It would be better to add the most important 5-man or leave them completely out
so that only the 4-man-TBs are used. This mixture has often enough proved to be
sub-optimal, the quoted game of your match is another example for that.
I wonder why you play this setup. The endgame turbo is not contained in any CB
product, so if you use the TBs, it is really known to be correct to use them
completely and no incomplete collections.



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