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

Author: Mark Young

Date: 09:53:10 10/13/98

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On October 13, 1998 at 12:48:35, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>On October 13, 1998 at 12:13:36, Mark Young wrote:
>>
>>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=

So Fritz 5 will not play the move longest to mate as a defense. Looking at the
game it seemed that it did.

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