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Subject: Re: EGTB to Bob : what is a broken position ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:50:24 05/16/04

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On May 16, 2004 at 20:39:55, Marc Bourzutschky wrote:

>On May 16, 2004 at 18:48:19, GuyHaworth wrote:
>
>>One kind of illegality is to place two pieces on the square, which Eugene's
>>indexing scheme tries do, e.g. in KQRK.
>
>Actually, for KQRK the Nalimov tablebase does not contain positions with more
>than one piece on the same square.  The only illegal positions in the tablebase
>are those where white is to move and black is already in check, and the checking
>piece is more than 1 square away from the black king...
>
>-Marc


That is my understanding also.  Even positions with two kings on adjacent
squares are squeezed out.  That's part of the space savings before compression
comes into play...



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