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Subject: Re: Fritz 5 can mate with KR vs KQ with no tablebase at 20 sec. a move.

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 09:48:35 10/13/98

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On October 13, 1998 at 12:13:36, Mark Young wrote:
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>I let Fritz 5 play a random position of KR VS KQ I let fritz 5 with KR have use
>of the tablebase. I did not let Fritz 5 with KQ make use of the tablebase.

Mark,

Just to clarify matters -- Fritz 5 does *not* use distance-to-mate "tablebases"
but Thompson's distance-to-conversion endgame databases instead.

=Ernst=



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