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Subject: Re: Incomplete egtbs can be harmful

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 08:10:43 11/06/01

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On November 06, 2001 at 10:21:04, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>If you find that the present position (at the root) is a mate in N, but after
>you try each legal move you can't find a TB score of mate in N-1, then you
>_must_ have a missing TB.  Just turn the tablebases off _completely_ as the
>promotion should be findable by normal search.

You don't need to turn them off completely. It is enough, to not probe the
number of pieces currently on the board. So, in a 5-men situation, probing 4-men
tables will not yield in any problems.

Regards,
Dieter




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