Author: John Merlino
Date: 18:34:12 10/21/02
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On October 21, 2002 at 18:31:50, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On October 21, 2002 at 00:00:42, Terry Ripple wrote: > >>I heard talk that if you don't have the complete set (all pawns) with pieces, >>that it could very well do worst for the program than do better for it, is this >>at all true? I'am especially interested in the 6 men as i have all the complete >>5 men and now would like the 6 man, but i hear that it's not complete as yet! > >All available 6-men TBs are pawnless. In this case, you don't have to fear an >problems. The typical problems arise, when there is a pawn, that must be >promoted, and the TB with the promoted pawn is missing. This however can not >happen with the available 6-men TBs. You need the 5-men TBs, so that after any >possible capture, a TB position will be found. > >Regards, >Dieter I'm pretty sure that Marc Bourzutschky is in the process of creating 6-man files with pawns for Chessmaster 9000. I have no idea how long they will take, nor do I know which files he's planning on building first.... He posted a thread here which showed his build times for quite a few 6-man files, but the only one I remember was 29 hours for KQQKQQ, and I don't remember the CPU either :-( jm
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