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Subject: Re: What is the lowest rated program tha can still solve this position ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:29:19 04/22/03

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On April 22, 2003 at 15:45:04, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On April 22, 2003 at 04:20:21, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>[much snipped]
>>>> 8/8/8/7P/4K1P1/r6P/k7/8 b - - 0 1
>
>>IIRC Yace Paderborn would make the mistake Ra4+ on my AMD at home too.
>
>You remember correctly :-( At least with 5-men TBs, it needs a long time.
>Depending on HT-size or other factors, it could be lucky. Uri explained it -
>several moves look like draw for a long, and one of it will be choosen, very
>likely a wrong, when TBs are there.
>
>I have thought about this and related problems for a long time. I hope, I will
>have a fix in the next version for many cases (including the above).
>
>Regards,
>Dieter

I also have ideas how to use tablebases in a more productive way but
unfortunately I cannot do it without starting by using tablebases and
I think that it is better to support all users of the program and there are a
lot of users who do not want to waste a lot of space in the hard disk for
tablebases.

Uri



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