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Subject: Re: Most important 5-piece tbs

Author: Michael Fuhrmann

Date: 14:37:54 05/04/00

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On May 04, 2000 at 16:54:07, pete wrote:

>On May 04, 2000 at 13:27:03, Michael Fuhrmann wrote:
>
>>I don't have room for all the 5-piece tbs. Right now I just have krpkr (and all
>>the 3s and 4s). Any sugestions on the most important ones after that?
>
>You chose a dangerous set as for most chess programs using your tablebase set
>the prog will now not promote in a krpkr :-(
>
>Only exception I know by now is crafty that will check if tablebases are missing
>.
>
>So the first additional tablebases you need are the ones with the pawn promoted
>: krqkr , krbkr , krnkr
>
>Then ( if you still have space ) get the ones with the queens and the pawn ;
>kqpkq and the subsets . Queen Endings like those seem to happen surprisingly
>often in computer games and are very difficult to calculate because of the
>eternal checks.
>
>I guess if you _then_ still have space you could get some of the more freakish
>oneslike KBBKN : these happen rarely but if they do tablebases really help ;-)
>
>Hope this answered your question .
>
>pete

This for this. Actually, I do use tablebases only with crafty.





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