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Subject: Re: KQKNNN - where is MissSilicon?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:16:18 11/13/01

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On November 13, 2001 at 14:44:03, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 13, 2001 at 13:33:57, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On November 13, 2001 at 04:32:55, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On November 13, 2001 at 02:08:15, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>>><snipped>
>>>>[D]1Q6/8/8/8/4n3/5K1k/5np1/8 b - - 0 124
>>>>
>>>>124... g1=N+! draw
>>>
>>>Is it a tablebase draw?
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>There are no tablebases for that position.  It has 6 pieces.
>
>I know that there are 6 pieces on the board but after promotion to knight there
>are no pawns and I know that part of the 6 piece tablebases with no pawns exist.
>
>KQ vs KNNN is one of the 6 piece tablebases that is relatively more easy to
>build because there are many pieces that are the same
>
>The size of the this tablebase is 6  times smaller then a tablebase when the
>pieces are different like
>KQ vs KRBN
>
>Uri
>Uri


Yes... but all that have been made so far are of the type Kxx vs Kxx, where
x is not a pawn (and not all of even these are done yet).

No KX vs KYYY endings at all on my ftp machine, and that is the only known
repository of the 6 piece files so far as I know, since that is where Eugene
puts them as he finishes them.



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