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Subject: Re: what are the most important Six man tablebases?

Author: Robin Smith

Date: 14:27:09 09/06/02

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On September 06, 2002 at 17:17:55, Tony Werten wrote:

>No problem. Point is that kppkpp itself will not help you so much. It might say
>you are winning, but chances are very small you'll checkmate with the 2 pawns so
>you need the conversions as well.

Most of the time you could get away with only those files that involve promotion
to a queen, drastically reducing the required file size.  Sure, you would mess
up the occaisional position needing underpromotion, but saving 990GB might make
it a worthwhile tradeoff.



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