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Subject: Re: Tablebases Again

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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