Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 15:51:03 08/04/00
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On August 04, 2000 at 13:12:08, Gordon Rattray wrote: >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. You are right. > 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 You can use a complete set of four men tablebases plus all the 3+2 tablebases without those problems. The reason is that a 4+1 ending can not be reached from a 3+2 one. José.
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