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Subject: Re: Fruit should not play without EGTB !

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:42:34 11/03/05

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On November 03, 2005 at 01:39:38, Günther Simon wrote:

>On November 02, 2005 at 17:31:56, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>Not much chess knowledge in Fruit?
>>
>> K7/1r2r3/4k3/8/8/8/3R4/8 w - - 0 1
>>
>>Fritz 9 sees a draw in 0 seconds. Does this means that Fruit is not usable for
>>endgame analyzis?
>>
>>Torstein
>
>Endgame chess knowledge and stalemate/perpetual patterns recognition
>have not much in common and I doubt more than a few will show some
>reasonable score here without tablebases.
>Nevertheless virtually every program will play the mentioned position
>correctly, even with a bad score.
>Fritz9 will see nothing here too without tablebases, but you know this
>already I guess?
>
>Guenther

Maybe you are right but I do not know it because I have no tablebases.

Movei has no problem to see scores that are close to a draw without tablebases.

I suggest that you use the following draw position to test your favourite
program

Here tablebases really cannot help so you really detect knowledge of the program

Movei has no problems

[D]Kn6/pr2r3/4k3/8/8/8/3R4/8 w - - 0 1






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