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Subject: Re: Will all 5 man positions always be solved with 5 man Namilov bases?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 14:51:32 01/08/02

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On January 08, 2002 at 17:24:05, Terry Ripple wrote:

>I have all 5 man Namilov installed and i'am finding out that not all solutions
>are solved but most seem to be solved. If i have all 5 man Namilov endgame bases
>installed are they supposed to solve all the 5 man positions immediately or will
>it use up more time in certain positions or possibly never solve it?
>
>The Namilov bases were downloaded from Hyatt's site and all 3,4,5 man add up to
>a total of 290 files, 7,05 GB (7,580,348,624 bytes) Does this look correct?
>
>Best regards,
>Terry

All 5 man should be solved.

You are probably forgetting that the kings are included in that count.

So it's 2 kings + 3 pieces, not 2 kings + 5 pieces.

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GCP



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