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Subject: Re: EGTB question

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 08:11:33 09/28/01

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There is no bug in TBSTAT, and statistics is correct.

Eugene

On September 28, 2001 at 08:27:37, Mike Hood wrote:

>On September 19, 2001 at 04:23:39, Les Fernandez wrote:
>
>>Has anyone tabulated the total win-lose-draw-broken positions for first the 3
>>then 4 and then the 5 piece sets?  I know that the information is available on
>>Bobs ftp site but hoping that someone has already done it for both WTM and BTM
>>so I dont have to do them one by one.
>>
>>ie:
>>
>>EGTB     WINS     LOSE     DRAW     BROKEN
>>
>> 3
>> 4
>> 5
>
>This is theoretically possible, but not very sensible at the moment. Most of the
>TBS files on Robert Hyatt's ftp server are defective, probably due to a bug in
>TBSTAT.
>
>For instance:
>
>krrk.tbs -- On black's move there are 1032 positions that lose in 16, but on
>white's move the longest mate is Mate in 7.
>
>kqrkr.tbs -- On black's move there are 60 moves that are Mate in 5, but there
>are ZERO moves that are Mate in 4.
>
>kbpk.tbs -- On white's move there is 1 position that is Mate in 31, but there
>are ZERO moves that are Mate in 30.
>
>In most of the TBS files the number of broken positions is not listed.
>
>Over 50% of the TBS files are obviously defective, and I can't vouch for the
>validity of the others. And, to ask a naive question, shouldn't the number of
>Mates/Losses/Draws in a pawnless tablebase always be divisible by 4?
>
>I've reported the bug to Eugene by email a few weeks ago, but it hasn't been
>fixed yet.
>
>Mike
>
>**** Dansez de la apusul pana la rasaritul soarelui ****



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