Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 18:02:53 10/14/02
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On October 14, 2002 at 20:45:31, martin fierz wrote: >i don't think any 6-man endgame without pawns is important! as you say, most of >them are rather trivial. i can't think of any of them which would be really >interesting - I believe, when you study the TBs, you will find many "interesting" positions. This should mean: they are not trivial. The ones I looked up are far to difficult to be really interesting for me. >in all the years i have played chess i have never had a single >game which ended in such an endgame! however, RP-RP and QP-QP and and things >like NPP-R or BPP-R can show up from time to time. I remember one game of my engine, where a pieceless 6-men EGTB could have been helpful. I believe it was KRBKBN, but I am not sure. (If anybody should be really interested, I will probably be able to find that game) I am sure, that that TB was not available from Hyatt's ftp. Also, I am sure, that my engine lost that game :-( I could look up online the positions from Ken Thompson's "TB-site" (http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/chesseg.html). Indeed, the game was theoretically lost, when reaching the material constellation. The win however was not trivial at all. Later in the game, there was the possibility of draw (only because of the 50 moves rule, without this rule, all positions in the game at that phase would have been lost). Regards, Dieter
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