Author: James T. Walker
Date: 07:31:07 01/22/03
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On January 22, 2003 at 09:16:28, Terry McCracken wrote: >On January 22, 2003 at 05:12:52, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: > >>An important rule went unnoticed here. >> >>The program can use the tablebase, but the game is declared draw when the >>computer hits a tblbase draw! >> >>Not a trivial statement: imagine Kasparov gets into a position where he is in >>disadvatage, he can try to enter in an endgame he knows to be drawn even not >>knowing how to play it. >> >>A sort of compensation for the fact Deep Junior has the TB's. >> >>regards >>Franz > >If Kasparov knows it's a draw, I'm pretty confident he can play it;) > >Terry It seems to me the main point is that Kasparov does not have to know it's a draw. It's sufficient for just the computer to know it's a draw and that's a big difference. Does it mean that the computer must be down to 5 men or just see the draw in it's search?
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