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Subject: Re: Extracting pawn endgames from a database

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 17:03:13 04/09/04

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On April 09, 2004 at 19:51:23, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>Well, at the moment I need about a few hundred pawn endgames with as many pawns
>on board as possible. If limiting the criteria to at least 4 pawns per side
>produces 48000 results, then maybe a limit of at least 5 pawns (or even 6 pawns)
>would result in a smaller database?

Just running it for 5 pawns.

>Also, can your program just create a FEN database of positions (for each game
>only one position where the conditions are satisfied)? That would save a lot of
>space, considering that most of the pawn endgames are very long games!.

I am too lazy now, to look at the PGN Standard. It would be easy to add a line

{FEN [some fen]}

at the start of the moves, where "[some fen]" is one sample fen (perhaps the
latest in the game) where your filter criterion fits.

Regards,
Dieter




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