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Subject: Re: Generating endgame tablebases

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 13:06:42 10/10/01

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On October 10, 2001 at 16:01:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 10, 2001 at 15:58:14, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>After about 5 hours of working my PC finaly managed to generate the 5 man
>>endgame KQBKQ. Makes me wonder, how much time the 6 man endgames must take!
>>
>>Torstein
>
>
>Some took hours on a Cray (Stiller).  Figure months on a PC for those.
>No idea how long the really bad ones will take (kppkpp for example.)
>The promotion cases will certainly take a _long_ while...

And they must be pretty large as well I guess. :-)

And while we are talking about it, any idea what is the most important 5 piece
endgames to generate? The one who is most often encountered in real games,
should be the ones to have I guess!

So tonight my PC will have to work a little bit again I think!

Torstein



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