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Subject: Re: A good idea for saving space in tablebases

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 10:55:53 10/10/98

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On October 10, 1998 at 11:33:14, blass uri wrote:

>I think that in some endgames like KRN vs KR you can save space
>by defining rules to do the right moves:
>
>If there is conversion in a small number of plies you can find it by search and
>not use the tablebases to tell you the right move
>

You can do the search if the position is in the root.
But what if it appears after a 18 ply search?

>In other positions you can use tablebases only if the rules are not right
>I believe it is possible to define rules that you are not wrong in 99% of the
>cases
>and for 1% of the cases you can save a smaller file with the positions and the
>right moves.
>
>you can have rules for win,draw,loss too and again you can store only the
>exceptions.
>
>I think it is more difficult to define good rules in other positions like KRB vs
>KR
>but at least for part of the endgames you can save a lot of space.
>
>Uri



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