Author: m.d.hurd
Date: 02:45:59 06/14/03
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On June 14, 2003 at 05:24:34, George Tsavdaris wrote: >On June 14, 2003 at 04:59:09, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>English: >>We are going to start a long tournament at 120'/60 under the conditions >>mentioned below. As you will see, we want to merely test the strength of the >>engines. Therefore, the remis.ctg will be used instead of the own books. And >>book learning is of course deactivated. Furthermore, the programs will have no >>access to the EGTB so that we can see the proper endgame knowledge of the >>engines. Hints about the outcome of this tournament are welcome. We are >>publishing first results after 10 rounds. >> >I think not letting programs have access to endgame tablebases is clearly >wrong! Because tablebases have been created for using them with engines, >to improve their endgame play. And furthermore some programmers may not include >code for some positions, because with the help of EGTB the engine will play >properly. >I honestly don't understand why you decided that. It's like not letting >in a human tournament, the people to have some advice from their coach or >not letting them to read the new book from Kasparov about endgames, because >you want to see their real strength. >Because if Shredder 7.04 for example is able to play the endgame with 2710 ELO >and Chess Tiger with 2690 with the help of EGTB and without EGTB Shredder >would play it with 2680 and CT with 2675 then we have an unfair competition >if we wont let engines use EGTB. I agree with you, I would have thought that most people use their engines with EGTB and therefore suggest that Kurt re-considers. However ce la vie. regards mike
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