Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 23:33:51 06/15/03
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On June 15, 2003 at 23:33:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 15, 2003 at 05:29:17, Robin Smith wrote: > >>On June 14, 2003 at 18:00:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On June 13, 2003 at 12:03:58, Michael Vox wrote: >>> >>>>http://www.clubkasparov.ru/521772350.html?462691585533321 >>>> >>>>One could argue chess endgame tablebases play the endgame like god, but not this >>>>article.... >>>> >>>>Enjoy :) >>> >>> >>>The author is an idiot. > >> >>Why exactly is GM Shipov an idiot? > >Read my next statement below. > > >> >>>a 5 piece endgame _counts_ the two kings. He is not counting them. >> >>In which position is he not counting them?? >> >>>He really thinks he is probing what we would call a 7 piece ending, which >>>is _years_ away from reality. >> >>Which position??? The only 7 piece ending I saw was position #2, but in that >>position GM Shipov does not mention tablebases. > >He mentioned it in the first two if I read correctly, yet _neither_ were >5 pieces on the board. I find nothing wrong with what the author writes about the first 2 positions. > > >> >>I think people on this message board need to tone down the "so-and-so is an >>idiot" talk, especially since it often turns out the authors of such name >>calling are making errors of their own. >> > > >I think his statements stand as written, and are wrong. The tables play >_perfectly_. With _no_ exceptions. Saying anything else is idiotic... > > > > > >>Robin
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