Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 12:16:23 09/26/98
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On September 26, 1998 at 14:14:47, Ted Hogan wrote: >On September 26, 1998 at 14:07:07, Danniel Corbit wrote: > >>The databases are perfect. But you have to have a winning position for them to >>help! If you have a losing position, the endgame databases will simply tell you >>how fast you could possibly get clobbered. > >Hello Danniel, > >I do not know the answer myself so I can only speculate. For instance Gary >Kasparov beat Deeper Blue in a game which went into a five piece endgame. >Deeper Blue has Ken Thompsons endgame disks. Therefore, based on this the >endgame disks must not be perfect. > >Please feel free to show me I am wrong. I am only looking for the best >information. > >Ted If such a position occured, it's probably that Deeper Blue chose to enter an ending that was lost because the alternatives would have let to it being mated more quickly. Can you post the game? Dave Gomboc
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