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

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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