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Subject: Re: Comparison of chess engine EGTB probing (P.S.)

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 18:25:36 02/08/03

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On February 08, 2003 at 21:00:53, Mike Hood wrote:

>Today I set up a position to compare the EGTB probing efficiency of several
>Chessbase engines. My PC is a Pentium III 733 MHz and I have all the 3/4/5-piece
>EGTBs. For the tests I gave the engines 128 MB hash tables. The position is:
>
>[D] 8/6k1/6P1/p4K2/8/8/4P1P1/8 w - - 0 1
>
>The optimal win is Mate in 25 with minor variations in the moves, for instance
>
>1. Ke5 a4 2. Kd4 a3 3. Kc3 a2 4. Kb2 a1Q+ 5. Kxa1
>(Here it enters the KPP-KP EGTB)

On checking my post, I made an error here... it's actually the KPPP-K EGTB.
Maybe some of the inconsistencies are caused by certain engines not implementing
the code for probing Kxxx-K tablebases?

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