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Subject: Re: detecting result by evaluation in Kp vs K positions

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 17:42:10 02/07/04

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On February 07, 2004 at 20:35:54, David Dory wrote:

>On February 07, 2004 at 19:38:08, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>Excellent idea -- how much space would KNBK, KRK, KQK and KBBK and  take.  I'm
>>thinking this would a nice feature in PDA's that do not use egtb's.
>
>Hi Mike,
>
>KNBK and KBBK would be tricky, but I believe your program should certainly
>handle KQK and KRK without any special databases, let alone egtb's.
>
>What particular problems have you encountered coding these up?
>
>David

Not me personally -

A.  I'm not that adept.
B.  I have noticed some PDa programs that do not play endings well - basic
endings like kbnk .  Older programs do this very well - some of the newer
programs rely on egtb so much, they cannot mate with B&N against K on a PDA.
C.  We do have  relatively easy solutions for this issue.



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