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

Author: Les Fernandez

Date: 19:34:56 10/08/02

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On October 08, 2002 at 19:38:02, John Merlino wrote:

>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?

And let us not forget how big were these files???

Les
>
>jm



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