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Subject: Re: Fruit 2.2 and Tablebases

Author: William Penn

Date: 21:49:09 10/27/05

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On October 27, 2005 at 05:51:17, Borokou wrote:

>Fruit does not support Endgame Tablebases at the moment. However we promise all
>buyers of Fruit 2.2 a free update with Tablebase-Support within a month (until
>end of October 2005).
>When can we will receive the update ?
>
>Borokou

Perhaps the question is how well Fruit will use the tablebases? Not all
tablebase implementations are the same! For example Shredder 8's tablebase
operations were very hard on the hard drive and Windows op system, causing big
slowdowns in the chess engine, but that problem has been largely corrected in
Shredder 9. Also will the Fruit implementation mimic Shredder 9 by allowing a
manual online query of the 6-man tablebases?

As you can see I'm positive about Shredder 9's handling of tablebases, somewhat
less so when it comes to finding the best move in semi-closed or closed
endgames!? I sometimes resort to using Fritz or other engines to try to confirm
my human intuition in such cases, because Shredder just can't always see or find
the best line.
WP



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