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Subject: Re: The 4 Disc Endgame Turbo vs The 10 Disc > Is it worth the space?

Author: Gordon Rattray

Date: 10:12:08 08/04/00

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On August 04, 2000 at 12:36:17, guy haworth wrote:

>
>Presumably, standard sources have the Nalimov 10-CD set for sale.
>
>    Chess & Bridge, London (nr. Gt. Portland St. Tube)
>    The BCM Shop, also London (nr. Olympia Tube)
>
>The 10 CD set covers all 3-to-5-man endgames (to DTM) except the 4-1 endgames.
>
>They perform much better than the original Thompson 4 CD set because they cover
>both wtm and btm positions, signal win/draw/loss rather than White
>wins/does_not_win and tend to 'cluster' requests for alternative sntm positions
>on the disc, and have good speed-up from caches.
>
>G


Thanks for the info.  I presume the "4-1 endgames" are king and three men versus
lone king.  So, I can install all the CDs on my hardrive and use them (e.g.
Fritz/Junior) without seeing any of the strange behaviour caused by using other
incomplete 5 man sets (mentioned in other thread)?

Gordon



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