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Subject: Re: Tablebase sizes: 6 man? 7? 8? ...

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 11:39:51 11/19/98

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On November 19, 1998 at 14:10:07, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On November 19, 1998 at 02:57:45, Komputer Korner wrote:
>
>>
>>Before we get all crazy about pawnless endings let us remember that there hasn't
>>been any 7 or above man pawnless endings in the history of chess. Pawn endings
>>with pieces are important not pawnless endings above 6 men.
>>--
>>Komputer Korner
>
>We are far from having 7-men tablebases, but I think we will have 6-men
>tablebases in a foreseeable future.
>The reasons to have pawnless tablebases:
>1. Endings with pawns can evolve to endings without pawns due to promotions. You
>need to have all the promotion classes first, to calculate the tablebases with
>pawns.
>2. Even if they do not appear in actual play, they are needed because they can
>occur in the search.


I guess you are right but yecch that will mean that we will have to have 6-16
man pawnless endings tablebases. My oh My !!!!!!!!!!!!
--
Komputer Korner



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