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Subject: Re: EGTB access and playing strength

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 06:52:57 01/29/06

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On January 29, 2006 at 09:38:56, Majd Al-Ansari wrote:

>I have a completely different result.  I see quite a big difference and many
>"won" games are now won instead of drawn.

      Please be good enough to present those results
      here. This would be of great interest.
      Kurt

I have checked out quite a few games
>and I will say that EGTB's greately improve endgame play for Rybka, and plug a
>lot of holes.

      This is contrary to long experience with other engines
      where you can almost see no difference regarding overall
      score after playing some hundred games.
      Kurt

 EGTB are especially important if the other side has them.  Not
>having them will leak a lot of points.  Still there is quite a ways to go for
>Rybka when endgames are concerned.  It still plays some endings horribly.  But
>the gaps are getting smaller and smaller and I am very interested to see how
>Rybka will be with beta 14 (EG knowledge added).



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