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Subject: Re: 24 interesting endgame positions

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 16:30:49 10/12/98

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On October 12, 1998 at 18:28:16, Howard Exner wrote:

>WHich of these positions are solved using endgame tablebases?
>Crafty, Ferret and MCPro use them. Any other programs use these tablebases?
>Thanks for this suite. I only recognized the one where Nxa5
>draws the game.
>
>8/8/2N4p/p5kP/P1K5/1P6/8/4b3 w - - id "Nxa5";

8/8/pp6/3b2K1/1P6/PN2k3/8/8 w - - id "Na5";

This is the position I was reffering to. I cut and pasted the wrong one
before.
>
>I posted this one quite awhile ago here and there was a lively debate
>about it. I recall some posters saying this was not a fair position but
>most agreed that Nxa5 was the only reasonable move since the only other
>choice of Na1 was much worse a choice.
>
>The others are new to me.



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