Author: Alexander Kure
Date: 03:29:39 11/19/99
Hi, There were some postings recently about Nimzo 7.32's handling of simple standard engames like KR-K, KBB-K, KBN-K where Nimzo 7.32 was not able to deliver mate. Well, the reason is quite simple: As long as the 3 and 4 piece endgame tablebases are installed and properly loaded when starting Nimzo 7.32, he will have no problem to mate. Now the question is what happens to Nimzo when confronted with these kind of endings where he has no access to endgame tablebases at all? The answer is quite simple: *All* endgame code regarding these endgames was removed from Nimzo 7.32. So when deprived of access to 3 and 4 endgame tablebases he has *absolutely* no idea what to do as there is no code in the evaluation to tell him what to do! Of course one can argue that this is nonsense and Nimzo 7.32 were to keep his endgame knowledge no matter if he uses endgame tablebases or not, but in the age of tablebases it seems not necessary anymore. You can test this with Nimzo'99, who still has this code and who has no problem to mate KR-K, KBB-K and KBN-K. So instead of using Hiarcs 7.32 as your alternative endgame engine maybe you could give Nimzo'99 a try ;-) Greetings Alex
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