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Subject: Re: trouble with hiarcs 9 and 6 men tablebase

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 01:34:41 11/07/03

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On November 07, 2003 at 03:52:30, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On November 07, 2003 at 02:59:45, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>i downloaded the TB krppkr yesterday
>>
>>I try to analyse with it with hiarcs 9 and it don't work
>>
>>If it'd work, i'd get all the mate value fot this position :
>
>Maybe I understood the tablebases concept wrong, but wouldn't you need all the
>promoted pawn form tablebases too to see a forced mate?

When using TBs with DTM-values (distance-to-mate) you only need the whole set of
TBs when actually playing out the mate. (since a capture/promotion will lead to
a different TB) For the score in the current position it's enough to have the
current TB.

Sargon



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