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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