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Subject: Re: Chessmaster endgame blunder

Author: John Merlino

Date: 15:06:00 07/14/04

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On July 14, 2004 at 18:05:15, John Merlino wrote:

>On July 14, 2004 at 17:38:40, Mihaly Szalai wrote:
>
>>On July 14, 2004 at 16:40:28, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>Sorry that I missed your mention of 51.bxa6. It appears that you are correct
>>>about 50...Nxd4, but it looks like Chessmaster would have to get up to at least
>>>depth 25 from that position to see that it is a worse move than 50...axb5. On my
>>>AMD2500, this would likely take well over an hour.
>>
>>I found no engine with egtb probing playing 50...Nxd4.
>
>Well, there you go -- Chessmaster 9000 does not probe the egtbs in the search.
>
>jm

Follow Up:

Try running your other programs without egtbs and let me know what they say.

jm



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