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Subject: Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 06:39:03 08/28/05

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On August 28, 2005 at 09:27:21, Roy Brunjes wrote:

>It seems about 2 years ago or
>so that there was beginning to develop a community consensus that tablebases
>were essential to strong endgame play by an engine.

Huh? I don't believe this is true. It has always been said that tablebases are
worth at most 20 ELO or so.

Realistically only a few tables like KRPKR and so will actually win or draw a
game that otherwhise wouldn't.

I wonder about the impact of 6 man tables. It could be bigger.

--
GCP

• Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Andreas Guettinger 09:58:44 08/28/05
  • Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Gian-Carlo Pascutto 00:39:42 08/29/05
    • Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Robert Hyatt 07:05:41 08/29/05
      • Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Gian-Carlo Pascutto 08:55:17 08/29/05
        • Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Robert Hyatt 09:05:33 08/29/05
          • Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Dann Corbit 11:38:48 08/29/05
• Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Ricardo Gibert 09:25:30 08/28/05
  • Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Dann Corbit 10:31:34 08/29/05
  • Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Jonas Cohonas 09:46:22 08/28/05
    • Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Majd Al-Ansari 11:21:51 08/29/05

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