Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 02:12:34 10/14/98
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On October 13, 1998 at 17:50:53, Moritz Berger wrote: >On October 13, 1998 at 17:44:15, blass uri wrote: > > >>It could not win a +6 ending because there is no basis to +6 >>The problem is with the evaluation function. > >You are perfectly right. But of course, with full 5 man endgame tablebases >(probed during search before reaching the 5 man endgame), the eval problem would >never show up ... Yes, this is one of those nice low-material transition cases. You want to trade down when you are ahead, but there are some endings where you are way ahead but they are drawn. I think that proper handling of this and the precursors to this is worth some Elo points, it is surprisingly common. bruce
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