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Subject: Re: Has there been any discussion about CSS 6/2004 sensation article??

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 05:03:27 12/22/04

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On December 22, 2004 at 04:18:33, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 22, 2004 at 02:04:10, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>Hopp oder top – Steigern Tablebases die Spielstärke?
>>Helmut Conrady untersucht in einem sehr breit angelegten Test die Auswirkungen
>>der Tablebases auf die Spielstärke von Schachprogrammen. Die Ergebnisse sind –
>>gerade auch für viele Programmierer – äußerst überraschend!
>>
>>Summary in english after reading article yesterday: after 1000s of games with
>>different levels and engines tablebases seems to have always NEGATIVE effect
>>on playing strength!! No doubt at all! Uri can easily forget implementing now..
>>
>>Jouni
>
>I do not see how they can have negative effect if they are probed only in the
>right conditions.

So Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, Mark Uniacke, Dieter Buerssner and others are wrong. Can
you do better? :-)

Helmut



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