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Subject: Re: The King 3.12d is weak in the endgames !

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:37:23 03/28/02

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On March 28, 2002 at 11:31:28, SedatCambaz wrote:

>On March 28, 2002 at 11:15:11, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>You cannot argue by only investigating one position that TheKing3.12d is weak in
>>the endgame. The T2002 tournament showed often the contrary: TheKing has much
>>endgame knowledge and the program of Johan de Koning played many good end games
>>and this despite the missing tablebase.
>>Kurt
>
>Ý dont argue The King 3.12d.Ý mean if other engines of elo 2500(Sos for
>Arena,Yace 0.99.56,Crafty 18.14) is finding very quickly the mate,
>Why in these position ,The champion of The T2002 tournament can't find the
>mate.Ý know that The King 3.12d is of elo nearly 2700.Ýf one program or human at
>least 2200 elo must find the mate in these position.
>I hope the new Chessmaster 9000 will not have the same problem,
>
>Best,
>Sedat

I believe that the only reason that they can find the mate very quickly is
tablebases that are used during the search(otherwise they have no chance to see
forced mate at small depthes).

Uri



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