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Subject: Re: EGTB Question

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 14:05:33 01/20/03

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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

Fortunately the longest win in all 5-man is exactly 127 moves!!

Helmut



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