Author: Les Fernandez
Date: 08:49:33 06/27/03
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On June 27, 2003 at 05:18:26, Bo Persson wrote: >On June 26, 2003 at 15:11:04, Les Fernandez wrote: > >>On June 26, 2003 at 14:12:32, Peter Stayne wrote: >> >>>Has anybody figured out how big a complete (w/ pawns) set of 6-mans would be. >>>And noone has completely rendered these yet right? >> >>Hi Pete, >> >>Eugene Namilov is currently generating the positions that include pawns and has >>already sent some of them to Bob Hyatts ftp site. When I last spoke to Bob he >>is waiting for the next bunch of data which Eugenes sends him on a 100 gb hard >>drive. I am also anxiously waiting for the next set and my best advice is to >>keep looking here in this forum. Well the total set once generated with >>compression I believe is estimated to be about 1 tb. Thats positions with and >>without pawns. For the most part all pawnless positions have been completed for >>6 pieces except the 5-1 set. Ummm Eugene any change of heart for the 5-1 set >><S>??? > >Wouldn't most of these be pretty uninteresting? Positions like KQQQQk I can >solve even without a computer. :-) > Well you are right that from the point of view of playing chess it would be uninteresting but my interests are different. I am doing a study on EGTB's and it requires perfect knowledge of all the positions. To date Eugene feels the same as you do and that there is no practical reason for generating the 5-1 positions. I am still trying and hoping that perhaps somewhere down the road he will decided to do that. Les >Or king and four same color bishops? > > >I guess we could replace most KXXXXk.btm with "Resign". That would compress >well! > > >Bo Persson >bop2@telia.com
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