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Subject: Re: Game 21 should be scored as a win for Shredder!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:59:52 12/05/02

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On December 05, 2002 at 11:28:53, Louis Fagliano wrote:

>Game 21 should be scored as a win for Shredder.  It achieved a winning position
>and only incomplete tablebases caused it not to promote it's pawn.  Having
>incomplete EGTB's is a condition created by the operator (since another operator
>might indeed have all 8 GB of EGTB's) and not something the programmer has any
>control over.  Thus, to score game 21 as a draw is a distortion of the program's
>true strength and a sign that the SSDF elo ratings list might not be accurate.
>
>I wonder how many games (out the the hundred thousand or so) that the SSDF has
>played ended like this.

It is something that the programmer has control over.
A lot of customers use part of the tablebases so programs should know to play
only with part of them.

If they do not know then it is the programmer's fault.
I agree with jouni uski here.

I did not implement tablebases in movei but when I decide to do it I am going to
do it in a correct way.

Uri



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