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Subject: Re: Fritz is still King of Blitz

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 13:42:37 06/18/99

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On June 17, 1999 at 18:47:08, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 17, 1999 at 18:37:43, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On June 17, 1999 at 18:33:50, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>
>>>BTW, were there games at WCCC9 where TBs affected the result? If I remember it
>>>correctly, somebody here is doing his/her private match between Hiarcs and
>>>Fritz, and among the first 10 games 4-man TBs already helped Hiarcs. So, 0.5
>>>points from 10.
>>>
>>>Eugene
>>
>>I'm not sure.  I wonder if Rebel would have been able to hold a game or two if
>>it had had tablebases, or if they would have been irrelevant.
>There are clearly games that would be affected if *all* programs had the
>tablebase files.  In particular a clear draw was lost with 5 pieces left on the
>board.

According to the Rebel home page, the game between Rebel and Shredder was
decided because shredder used tablebases.

Ernst-J.



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