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Subject: Re: Tablebase exits?

Author: David Eppstein

Date: 20:15:28 05/31/99

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On May 31, 1999 at 18:51:02, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>KRBKR would be a good example of a missing tablebase that you don't want to
>trade down into (e.g. by captures) without tablebase knowledge and without a
>forced win searched, because even if the promotion is correct, you might blow it
>later.

Well, you're not going to exit from the tablebase by a capture into this one
until we get six-piece tablebases.  But KRBKR would be a good example of a
tablebase that you don't want to have missing -- it's too hard to handle
correctly algorithmically.



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