Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 22:30:22 07/13/99
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On July 14, 1999 at 01:20:26, Dann Corbit wrote: >It might be interesting to make a pawn race tablebase for large numbers of >pieces. Suppose that you have 2 king and x/y pawns left. It might be >worthwhile to compute "how many plies till I convert? How many plies till enemy >converts?" If I have a two ply advantage, it seems significant. > >If you have a king and three pawns on both sides, we could never count all >possibilities. But we could find out how fast we can convert. Where is such a thing useful? I think it unlikely to find two kings and 12 pawns on the board. And 5 piece tablebase files are common. So for small numbers of pawns, yet too many pieces for the tablebase files, it might be very useful information. Also, since we know we are computing a pawn race, it may simplify calculations. Because we stop once we convert (or perhaps a couple moves after) it would not be nearly as difficult as a complete endgame tablebase.
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