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Subject: Re: Endgame Databases

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:31:05 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


I didn't see *any* games in the DB vs Kasparov matches (either one) that
ended up with 5 pieces on the board...



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