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Subject: Re: Tablebases misbehaving

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:47:16 08/26/00

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On August 26, 2000 at 20:01:16, Sylvain Renard wrote:

>On August 26, 2000 at 05:22:00, Joshua Lee wrote:
>
>>For some strange reason it doesn't mate like it says it will in a Krp VS Kr.
>>The position is W: Kg8, Rf3, Pg7
>>B: Ke7,Rh1  Black to move  this is what happens.......
>>
>>1...Rh2#21 2.Rf4 #21 Rh3 #20
>>3. Re4+ #20 Kd6 #19 4. Kf7 #19 Rf3+#18
>>5. Kg6 #18 Rc3 #17 6. Rg4 #17 Rc8 #16
>>7. Kf6 #16 Rg8 #15 8. Rg5 #15 Re8 #14
>>9. Rg6 #16 Kd5 #15 10. Rg4+ #16 Kc4
>>11. Rg4+ #16 Kc5 #15 12. Rg5+ Kc4 #15
>>13. Rg4+#16 Kc5 #15 14. Rg5+ #16 Kc4 0.00 1/2-1/2
>>
>>even with the small tbs file it still does the same thing....Thankyou
>
>  Hello,
>You had an excellent answer from Uri.
>It is a well known problem. Most of the time, the files kqrvkr
>will be sufficient. But in some rare positions, an underpromotion
>is the only move get closer of mate.
>So the only way to avoid theses problems is to have _all_ 5 pieces
>files!
>  Best regards,
>     Sylvain


Or use the approach used in Crafty, which solves this problem easily.



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