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Subject: Re: endgame question

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 02:27:50 03/20/98

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On March 18, 1998 at 10:16:47, Carsten Kossendey wrote:

>On March 18, 1998 at 09:34:11, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I was sure that all 5-piece endings are available on Kevin Thompsons 4
>>CDs but I miss rook versus 2 pawns (ie). Isn't that investigated yet or
>>available in the tablebases or how and where can I find this?
>>Please answer in rgcc, I only read and write here rarely...(too
>>expensive).
>
>Thompsons format cannot handle any class with more than one pawn, so you
>aren't gonna get it that way.
>
>If you want it in tablebase format you can of course create it yourself.
>
>To build KPPKR you will need, in terms of disk space:
>
>- KQPKR (1 gig), KQQKR, KQRKR, KQBKR, and KQNKR (320 meg each)
>- KRPKR (1 gig),        KRRKR, KRBKR, and KRNKR (320 meg each)
>- KBPKR (1 gig),               KBBKR, and KBNKR (320 meg each)
>- KNPKR (1 gig),                      and KNNKR (320 meg)
>- 1 gig to hold the final KPPKR
>- 2 gig temp space to create it
>
>That's a total of roughly 10 gigabytes, and some weeks (more like a few
>months) of calculation time. I won't be giving it a try anywhen soon.

Oh  thanks, I want to use them and not build em up, I only have 1 PC and
not much time...




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