Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:21:50 10/09/98
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On October 09, 1998 at 18:05:18, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On October 09, 1998 at 17:33:07, James T. Walker wrote: > >>Is there a practical use for tablebases like the KBKN or KBKB etc. ? Am I >>making a mistake by not using all the available tablebases ? >>Jim Walker > >Those are probably not important. > >If you use something like KP vs K, make sure you have KQ vs K, or you might >experience strange behavior as the program might forget that it should promote. > >bruce Crafty won't even probe things like KB vs KN, it has what Ernst would call an "interior node recognizer" that classifies such positions as draw, without needing to do a probe of any kind. So if using Crafty, you can delete those..., although you would need them to construct other databases...
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