Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:28:59 09/26/98
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On September 26, 1998 at 10:41:42, Ted Hogan wrote: >Hello group, > >I was reading an article in the USCF magazine by Gabriel Schwartzman GM. He >states that if I have a 5 piece end game cd-rom (Ken Thompson) then I could >never beat the computer because it will play "perfect" end game chess. > >I tend to disagree with this. Gary Kasparov beat Deeper Blue and they had Ken >Thompson's endgame disks. So it is reasonable to assume the endgame databases >are not perfect. > >Please feel free to tear my thoughts and theories apart all I want to find out >is the best information in this regard. > >Ted The endgame databases are absolutely perfect. But nothing says that every game will end in a KRP vs KR ending, for example. You have to have the right database for the ending you reach. And you can reach lost endings in KRP vs KR just as easily as you can reach won ones...
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