Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 10:26:27 10/23/02
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KQQKQQ is one of the simplest 6-men TBs. Current version of my generator generates it in 14 hours on P4/2GHz. Thanks, Eugene On October 21, 2002 at 23:48:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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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