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Subject: Re: game of Shredder vs Ufim

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 20:10:08 10/17/03

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On October 17, 2003 at 22:02:52, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 17, 2003 at 17:30:33, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On October 17, 2003 at 17:02:43, swaminathan natarajan wrote:
>>
>>>what about tablebases? YOU need it !
>>>is it required? YES
>>>what r the different tablebases available and which requires less space to
>>>download?
>>
>>during the starting of the game till the middle game it played really well
>>but finally at last
>>very rapidly(without consuming 1 or 2 seconds for 10 moves)but it has almost 1
>>min in its clock
>>then why does it play very rapidly without analyzing and then blundered making
>>moves and finally lost the game(mostly happened only at endings)
>>
>>BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT USING THE TABLEBASES, THAT IS WHY IT BLUNDERED AT SUCH FAST
>>TIME CONTROL :-)
>
>No
>
>The mistakes of searching to depth 2 has nothing to do with missing tablebases.
>Tablebases were not relevant in the game.
>Uri
>>

The mistake of searching to depth 2 has something to do with his settings, since
mine searches to depth 10 under the same time control. I don't know how he
installed Shredder 704 under Arena 0.947, but I am NOT having the same problem
that he is having :-)

Pichard



>>The reason why Shredder 704 UCI plays rapidly is because it is trying NOT to
>>loose on time, but at the same time it blundered because at such fast time
>>control it is almost impossible to calculate the exact winning line for a
>>complicated endgame, but with the Nalimov Tablebases it will not blunder and it
>>will always select the best move.
>>
>>Pichard



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