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Subject: Re: Ruffian 1.0.0 can't mate with KR v K??

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 07:00:41 09/26/02

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On September 26, 2002 at 08:34:43, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On September 26, 2002 at 08:01:26, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>
>Ruffiah seams to be a modern engine. It uses the null-move heuristic heavily.
>Since the endgame is all about zugzwang it is no surprise that Ruffian will fail
>to to properly in that area. Tablebases resolve this partially.
>So why don't you use them??
>Showing bad results when you criple the engine dosn't say anything about the
>engine, it says something about the user.
>Regards
>Bernhard

As far as i know the tb's are not part of the engine, so i don't see how that
not using tb's could possibly be described as "cripling" the _engine_...

I chose not to use tb's since cm8 has no access to them and i wanted it to be an
even match...

Regards
Jonas



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