Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 17:09:15 01/04/99
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On January 04, 1999 at 19:52:21, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Based on my understanding, any program that has access to the corresponding TB must declare those positions as draws (I myself have no chess program here, so I cannot check my statement). Eugene
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