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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger 14 is 100 points WEAKER than TheKing ??

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:48:49 02/18/02

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On February 18, 2002 at 14:42:17, Albert Silver wrote:

>On February 18, 2002 at 14:25:05, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>Chess Tiger 14 is 100 points WEAKER than TheKing ??
>
>Keep in mind a few things:
>
>- The engines are playing with ponder OFF, which although ideal for a single
>machine, can seriously affect the overall result.
>- The performance is for this event only and with varying time controls, so it
>can easily be the reverse in a next event.
>- The programs are only using 4 piece TBs. Christophe has already said that he
>thought Tiger's performance (he was commenting the SSDF when saying this) could
>be affected by the use of incomplete TBs.

He was talking about using only part of the 5 piece tablebases and not about
using all the 4 piece tablebases and none of the 5 piece tablebases.

If you give tiger the KRP vs KR without giving it the KRQ vs KR then it is
better if you do not use 5 piece tablebases at all.

Uri



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