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Subject: Re: Nalimov tablebase format

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:17:03 05/14/01

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On May 14, 2001 at 22:50:25, Andy Serpa wrote:

>Is the format (uncompressed) of these files described anywhere?
>
>Is there a way to simply *list* the positions in the tablebase (rather than
>query it for a particular position) along with the "Mate in x" or whatever?


It is pretty much a one-way mapping algorithm.  You can compute the "Godel"
number used to index the tables, given a position.  I am not sure you can
do the inverse and compute the position given an index into the table.



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