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Subject: Re: Help needed: How can I search a 6 piece position by Nalimov tablebases?

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 12:00:53 12/04/04

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On December 04, 2004 at 12:35:44, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On December 04, 2004 at 06:54:48, Vasik Rajlich wrote:
>
>>One computer trick is to let the position run overnight and if the scores you
>>get haven't skyrocketed it's probably drawn. That is, if white is promoting a
>>pawn here then a 30-ply search should be able to find it.
>
>I think, 60 ply (or even more) is more realistic. It will probably take too long
>with any "normal" engine on normal hardware.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter

True - 84 plies according to Eugene. I don't know where I came up with 30 :)

Vas



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