Author: Helmut Conrady
Date: 09:43:57 05/30/01
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On May 29, 2001 at 23:33:39, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On May 29, 2001 at 15:07:32, Helmut Conrady wrote: > >>On May 29, 2001 at 12:14:09, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >> >>>On May 29, 2001 at 11:14:05, Hans Christian Lykke wrote: >>> >>>>In a CC game I have this position. >>>>A 6-men endgame-tablebase could show if/how/when black is winning. >>>>But are there such a 6-men tablebase? >>>> >>>>[D] 8/8/1k3R2/p7/8/r6p/7K/8 b - - 0 69 >>>> >>>> >>>>Best regards >>>> >>>>Hans Christian Lykke >>> >>>I seriously doubt a 6-man tablebase has been created for this ending, because of >>>the presence of the 2 pawns, since they can promote to Q, R, B or N, this >>>encompasses too many possible 6-man endings. >>> >>>I'm pretty sure the position is a draw. >> >>Without QP-QP no 6 man TB has been created. >> >>Helmut > > >I don't know what you mean with "QP-QP". I meant "except"! :) You can find a list of 6-man endings >at: ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB QP-QP was created by Peter Karrer from Switzerland (interesting ICCA article some times ago) as DTM like Nalimov. Longest DTM is 117 moves. AFAIK this database isn t publically available! Helmut
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