Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:38:28 10/10/01
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On October 10, 2001 at 16:06:42, Torstein Hall wrote: >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 My answer is "KRPKR" and "KQPKQ" but that means you have to have a lot of promotion cases as well. :)
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