Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 12:42:19 01/22/03
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On January 22, 2003 at 11:06:48, Robert Hyatt 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 > > >That is yet another example of the stupidest rule anyone could come up with. The rule in Kramnik-Fritz was that the tablebases weren't allowed, period. You might not like the rule for Kasparov-Junior, but certainly it is an improvement, yes? Dave
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