Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:40:14 10/13/98
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On October 13, 1998 at 02:36:31, blass uri wrote: >I think that if the pawns are blocked it may be easy to built the tablebases >because the number of different position you need to evaluate for every case is >less than 300,000. >It is even more easy than KQvKR positions > >After you build the tablebases for blocked pawns you can build tablebases for >all the cases of almost blocked pawns(like blacka6, white a4) >and you can do a tablebases for all the cases when the pawns are in the same >file. > >These positions are in many cases not a win for the strong side. >There are cases when it is a draw If the weak side can take the pawn by the king >or a fortress posdition against a bishop >or even a win for the weak side if the knight cannot protect the pawn and stop >the another pawn from being a queen. Yes. You'd better have a good KP vs KP database, which takes into account en-passant though. You can get an en-passant case with the pawns on the same file, because a capture can convert into KP vs KP with pawns on adjacent files. bruce
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