Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 10:20:31 01/22/03
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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 Seems to imply that as tablebases get bigger (more men/stones) drawing may get easier. With 32 men maybe I could even draw a few. Frank
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