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Subject: Re: Which Tablebases to download?

Author: pete

Date: 11:37:26 05/30/00

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On May 30, 2000 at 14:01:39, Aaron Tay wrote:

>On May 30, 2000 at 10:25:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On May 30, 2000 at 06:55:59, Ray MacFadyen wrote:
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>
>
>>You should get all the 3/4 piece files.  These total less than 200mb.  To that,
>>add kr*kr where *=pnbrq.  That will get you close to 1 gig total.
>
>
>Just wondering why do you consider Krqkr(isn't this nearly always a simple win)
>important and KrnKR (draw?) important? I would think KrpKr would be most
>important followed by KPPKP . Also KQPKP . KnKpp and KBKpp ...
>

You will learn very soon if you try it with a program without having special
knowledge dealing with the case of missing tablebases .

In a Krpkr it will advance in a Rubinstein-way its pawn to the seventh rank but
then will _never_ promote the pawn as having a mate in 33 is much nicer that
being a queen up , isn't it :-) ?



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