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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