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Subject: Re: You're wrong!

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 09:00:05 03/29/02

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On March 28, 2002 at 21:48:20, John Merlino wrote:

>On March 28, 2002 at 18:57:25, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On March 28, 2002 at 18:22:05, Graham Banks wrote:
>>
>>>I've actually found Chessmaster 8000 to be very good in endgames, considering
>>>that it can't access tablebases. I would respectfully suggest that you haven't
>>>played too many games with it.
>>>I still reckon Shredder is the endgame king though. What do others think?
>>
>>
>>I had not heard Shredder mentioned among the top non-TB endgame players.  I
>>usually hear Crafty, Yace, and Chess Tiger, and sometimes Chessmaster.
>
>Well, actually you probably mean "sans TB" rather than "non-TB", because I'm
>pretty sure that all of those four except Chessmaster can use endgame TBs.
>
>In other words, you are referring to the engine's ability to evaluate endgame
>positions without the use of TBs. If so, then I would agree with all of those
>four (but not necessarily limit my list to those four).
>
>jm



You are correct, sir.  My wording was inaccurate.



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