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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:50:06 12/22/04

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On December 22, 2004 at 08:03:27, Helmut Conrady wrote:

>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

If it is correct that your conclusion was that EGTB's are not useful, then it's
not Uri who is wrong but you.

Stefan doesn't post here a lot but he would prefer to lose 1 arm instead of
playing without EGTB's at the world champs. Either blitz or tournament.

How you can draw this conclusion is a mystery to me.

Vincent



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