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Subject: Re: There goes the surprise ...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:06:49 12/01/01

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On December 01, 2001 at 17:27:31, Harald Faber 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:
>>>
>>>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.

It should be common knowledge of programmers to use the incomplete 5 piece
tablebases correctly(stopping to use tablebases when the distance to mate is not
reduced is a possible way).

Uri



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