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Subject: Re: Ideas to reduce size of tablebases

Author: Rémi Coulom

Date: 11:43:03 09/01/98

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On September 01, 1998 at 05:38:08, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>You should probably be more careful with your public statements and re-read
>my article because these ideas are already mentioned.
>
>
>Sorry, but your math is wrong: 33 + 3*30 + 3*55 + 3*58 = 462.
>
I am sorry, I can not make additions correctly when it is early in the morning
:)

>
>See Section 4.1 "The Two Kings" of my article. Because I confine the first
>Pawn to one half of the board, I get 3612 = 2*1806 legal placements of two
>Kings on an otherwise empty chess board.
>
>For KPK you get 1806 * 48 = 86688 and I get 3612 * 24 = 86688 which is
>exactly the same.
I apologize again. I compared my figures to your table without reading the text
carefuly and I noticed that for other endings I add a small improvement. This
was only because of the 48*47... and 62*61*60... tricks of course. I will post
more carefuly next time.

>
>=Ernst=



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