Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 10:56:11 04/27/02
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On April 27, 2002 at 12:00:24, Robin Smith wrote: >The general "rule" is that you need an extra rook's worth of material to win >pawnless endings. I've always heard it's 4 pawns or equivalent material, not 5. >Of course tablebases have found many exceptions to this >rule, so maybe when the 7 piece tablebases come out it will be found that this >position is a win for black That's probably going to be a little longer than he'd like to wait. It's still going to be several years before the 6 piece tablebases are done. The 7 man tablebases will take a LOT longer to generate than the 6 man. I can't really say for certain how long it would take, but it wouldn't suprise me if it was still 10 years before they were completed. Russell
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