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Subject: Re: EGTB question

Author: Les Fernandez

Date: 22:54:42 09/28/01

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On September 28, 2001 at 13:37:24, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>DTM, not DTC. After capture or promotion resulting position is stored in the
>other TB, not in the current one.
>
>Eugene
Hi Eugene,

I am glad to hear that the information is correct.  I had no doubt it wasn't.
BTW have you had time to review the email I sent you?

Thanks,

Les
>
>On September 28, 2001 at 12:38:55, Mike Hood wrote:
>

>>Thanks for the reply, Eugene. I'm willing to accept I may be wrong, but how do
>>you explain the discrepancies I named?
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>On September 28, 2001 at 11:11:33, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>
>>>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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