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Subject: Re: Nalimov Tablesbases lingo.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:48:12 11/03/02

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On November 02, 2002 at 12:45:58, Louis Fagliano wrote:

>In the Nalimov EGTB's the filnames are such like:
>
>krpkrnbw.emd
>krpkrnbb.emd
>
>for a king, rook, and pawn vs. a king and rook.
>
>My question is what does the "nbb" and "nbw" stand for?
>
>I think that the "b" and "w" stands for Black and White respectivly, but what
>about the "n" and the "b"?  Should different letters be used since it could be
>confused with standing for a bishop and a knight?


The nb is from the initials of the two people that wrote the code.  That was
done to make them different from the Edward's naming convention so that there
could be no confusion.



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