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

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 18:04:19 01/08/02

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On January 08, 2002 at 17:51:32, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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.
>
>--
>GCP

Also remember there are some completely useless tablebases in that complete set.
Such as King + 3 queens vs. King; King + 2 queens + 1 rook vs. King, etc.

                                      Albert



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