Author: Sylvain Renard
Date: 11:14:28 03/26/99
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>As far as I know, the tables that Fritz is using only indicate "win for stronger
>side" or "not win for stronger side"... which is being interpreted as "draw".
Yes, that's true. I have played automatical games between my program
Capture and some Fritz engines and I was astonished to see that in some KPRKR
endgames, Fritz loses his rook, converting a drawn endgame into a lost
endgame! But the mistake is to use a database which only tells that the
stronger side doesn't win. For most of these positions, any move will lead
to a draw, but in some situations, you can lose (the stronger side is in check
and moves the king without protecting his rook).
I don't see a simple way to use theses bases and avoid this problem (you
must add some "engine thinking" to the knowledge of the database, awful!).
Using the tablebases is the solution.
Best regards,
Sylvain Renard
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