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Subject: Re: Why Can I Access EGTBs with Rybka I.0 32bit Beta?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:13:00 12/21/05

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On December 21, 2005 at 04:57:48, Majd Al-Ansari wrote:

>On December 21, 2005 at 03:04:20, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>
>>Using the Shredder 8.ctg book and 192MB Hashtables in the Chessbase GUI I have
>>noticed that Rybka is doing EGTB searches. Is this bizarre or have I discovered
>>something? I haven't tried positions requiring underpromotions yet. Many have
>>stated that Rybka has no endgame knowledge.
>>
>>Perplexed
>
>
>The GUI does it, but it does it in a way that is not really used by the engine.
>For the engine to be able to correctely use EGTB's it has to use the EGTB in its
>evaluation of positions and be able to probe the EGTB and change its evaluation
>accordingly.  That is totally different than ending up with a certain position
>that is already in the EGTB which the GUI will then take over.

Timothy J. Frohlick has a buggy gui.
It is not the job of the gui to do it but the job of the engine.

Uri



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