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Subject: Re: A question for all chess programmers!!!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:52:21 01/04/99

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After having stepped through these end-games, I think that the problem is the
horizon effect. The draws are so far away, that they cannot be seen.  Which
brings up an interesting question:
Do endgame tablebase files contain draw data *as well as* checkmate data, so
that when you are behind a draw could be discovered?  This seems (to my feeble
way of thinking) to be just as valuable as checkmate data.  If not, it seems
worthwhile to construct draw endgame tablebase files just as construction of
checkmate database files is valuable.



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