Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:00:50 06/15/03
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On June 15, 2003 at 10:50:31, Mike Siler wrote: >In position 6, there are 5 men on the board so the engines should have used the >5 piece tablebases. However, both engines give a score of 3 point something. I >thought that tablebase probes only gave one of 3 responses: draw, mate in x or >mated in x. So if the root position is in the tablebase, how could they return >those scores? Do I not understand tablebases or are the engines not actually >probing them? > >Michael Shipov was using only tablebases that were provided by chessbase when he bought Junior or Fritz or even CD's for part of the tablebases. These tablebases include only part of the 5 piece tablebases and KBP vs KP is not included. Uri
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