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Subject: Re: 6 man EGDB's with pawns - some CM FEG results

Author: John Merlino

Date: 16:38:02 10/08/02

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On October 08, 2002 at 18:45:36, Marc Bourzutschky wrote:

>The Chessmaster FEG program (downloadable from www.chessmaster.com) is a very
>clever tool that allows the generation of 6-man EGDB's with pawns on a 32 bit
>machine with limited resource requirements.  This would not be possible with
>the Nalimov program without some code changes.  I have generated KRPPKR which
>occurs relatively frequently in practice (next I'll generate KRPKRP and KRKPPP.)
>Below some positions that are misanalyzed in ECE, and also give Fritz trouble
>even when using 5-man tablebases.  Unfortunately the file format of the FEG
>tablebases is not public, so no automated search for mutual zugzwang
>positions nor a systematic comparison with Nalimov's results is yet possible.

Many thanks for posting this information. I have a few questions:

Which 6-man files have you built? How long did it take to build them? Have you
also built all of their dependent filesets?

jm




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