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Subject: Re: EGTB Question

Author: Eiko Bleicher

Date: 12:28:04 01/20/03

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On January 20, 2003 at 15:23:02, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 20, 2003 at 13:11:48, Eiko Bleicher wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>AFAIK the endgame tablebases like the Nalimov Tablebases use one byte per
>>position. Thus, the max. length results in somewhere about 126 moves to win /
>>loose.
>>
>>Now the question is this: How do these databases handle the positions that are
>>mate in 130 or 140 or ....
>>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Eiko
>
>
>you go to more bits per entry. :)

But does anybody really do that today?




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