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Subject: Re: question about using the nalimov tablebases for debugging [long]

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:19:06 02/09/04

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On February 09, 2004 at 16:11:26, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 09, 2004 at 15:55:06, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>As I told you in email there seem to be some errors in the table and the
>>following position is evaluated wrong as a draw.
>>
>>k7/1P6/1K6/8/8/8/8/8 b - - 0 1
>>
>>I wonder if it is generalized wrong rule to that check is a draw in pawn endgame
>>or another wrong rule that the pawn cannot be bigger by 8 than the king.
>>
>>Uri
>
>It seems that every check is evaluated as a draw based on checking more
>positions and there are many checks.
>
>check is not a draw even if the position is not in the 7th rank because Kc3 b2
>Ka3 is not a draw.
>
>Uri

The last case is really illegal position but if you push the board one file
higher than it is legal.

Uri



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