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Subject: Re: 'Simple' Pawn Endgame

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 08:11:06 09/13/02

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On September 13, 2002 at 08:41:29, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 13, 2002 at 08:21:05, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>>I think that every probe should to be succesful if the machine has all the 5
>>>piece tablebases.
>>>Probes should be done only if there are at most 5 pieces.
>>
>>It searches TB on the PV.  Perhaps there are no 5 piece in the PV given, but
>>there are plenty in the positions searched that are not displayed.
>
>You missed the point of his question: why are there
>unsuccessful probes, considering there is no point in
>probing if there are more than 5 pieces.
>
>I'm guessing you have incomplete TB sets. (evil!)

Yes.  I do.  The 6 piece set.

I have all 3/4/5 and about 13GB of the 6's.  Total is about 21GB.

Sorry, I had just woke up when I responded, which is usually a bad idea.


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>GCP



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