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

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 11:04:57 02/08/04

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On February 07, 2004 at 20:42:10, Mike Byrne 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.

>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.

But using a "bitbase" for KBNK would not help at all with this problem. Also not
for the other ones mentioned above.

Regards,
Dieter



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