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Subject: Re: The same is true of Symbolic

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 22:23:34 05/28/05

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On May 29, 2005 at 00:31:17, Pallav Nawani wrote:

>I think symbolic is weak in the endgame. I played two games with Natwarlal vs
>Symbolic, and Symbolic lost both games in the endgame, after commiting blunders.
> Also note that Natwarlal itself is considered weak in the endgames (In fact,
>Natwarlal has no code for endgames at all - it cannot even handle passed pawns
>properly), so this probably indicates some weakness in symbolic for endgames.

I suspect that some of the symptoms are due to an interaction between the recent
extension experiments and the tablebase probe trigger.  I've made some
adjustments to the trigger and to the tablebase cache set and will try these on
ICC.



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