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Subject: Re: Possible new idea for EGTB generation !! (Eugene-Bob-Dann) for openers

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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