Author: Steffen Jakob
Date: 01:45:34 02/09/03
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On February 08, 2003 at 23:17:53, Les Fernandez wrote: >As we all know, generating egtb's for the 6 piece sets require alot of time and >computer hardware to do. I have an idea that appears to reduce the amount of >work needed to generate these permutations and would like to hear follow-up on >your thoughts. What I propose to do is explained in the following example. >Suppose we are in the process of generating the 6 piece EGTB for kbrnkr and for >the sake of this example lets assume we are working with the following position: > >3k3r/8/2K5/3BRN2/8/8/8/8 w - - > >SOLUTION according to Crafty = acd 9; acn 1910070; acs 7; ce 32758; pv Bf7 Kc8 >Rb5 Rh7 Be6+ Rd7 Bxd7+ Kd8 Rb8#; > >Obviously this is just one position out of who knows how many positions for this >1 egtb. Now based on the above analysis we see the key move (target square) is >Bf7. Now if we take that target square (f7) does anyone see any reason we can't >put a black p,n,b,r or q on it?? Because there could be a shorter mate with another key move?! Greetings, Steffen.
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