Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:48:57 10/21/02
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On October 21, 2002 at 21:34:12, John Merlino wrote: >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 29 hours sounds incredibly fast, since it is going to require at _least_ 100 iterations to find most of the draws...
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