Author: Gabor Szots
Date: 13:50:57 06/19/05
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On June 19, 2005 at 15:37:23, Robert Hollay wrote: >On June 19, 2005 at 13:25:49, Steve Maughan wrote: > >>Gabor, >> >>>No. EGTB's do not increase the knowledge of the engine. They are simply like >>>vocabularies or lexicons. >> >>You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. If an engine doesn't know >>how to mate with B+N+K v K and you implement / copy the EGTB it will "know" how >>to mate. >> >>Steve > >I am a poor chess player and probably couldn't mate a GM with B+N+K v K. >But if somebody tell me what to move in each position, >would be my "chess knowledge" increased? I don't think so. Exactly. I even know of a chess programmer who believes (at least once said so) that using EGTB's is cheating.
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