Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:03:31 11/13/01
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On November 13, 2001 at 10:09:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 13, 2001 at 08:31:09, William Penn wrote: > >>I suspect this has been discussed before but I didn't pay attention, so please >>pardon my redundancy. If you could just point me in the right direction, much >>appreciated... >> >>Can't we make some assumptions without compromising very much practical playing >>strength and significantly reduce the size of the endgame tablebases? For >>example it seems a waste to generate separate positions for "white to move" and >>"black to move". > >How would you handle all the common zugzwang positions? black king at e6, >white king at e4, white pawn at e3. White to move draws. Black to move >loses. There is a solution for it. You probe the tablebases only when the right side is to move. I understand that calculating the moves when you are in a tablebases position becomes more comlicated but it can be solved by 2 ply search. Uri
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