Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:06:36 01/22/03
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On January 22, 2003 at 15:42:19, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 Just as surely as it is better to cut off only _one_ of your legs, rather than both... neither sounds particularly attractive to me however...
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