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Subject: Re: illegal positions in nalimov tablebases

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 00:52:13 02/04/05

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On February 04, 2005 at 03:50:37, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>On February 04, 2005 at 03:44:57, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On February 04, 2005 at 03:41:01, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I find that there are some illegal positions in nalimov tablebases like the
>>>following position because there is no possible last move of white.
>>>
>>>[D]3K4/8/8/3R4/3kR3/8/8/8 b - - 0 1
>>>
>>>Note that the following position is legal(last move of white could be under
>>>promotion to a rook)
>>>[D]kR1K4/8/R7/8/8/8/8/8 b - - 0 1
>>>
>>>I wonder if somebody cared to count the number of legal positions with 6 or less
>>>pieces.
>>>
>>>A position with 4 pieces is illegal if it cannot be reached from position that
>>>is not obviously illegal of 5 piece or less pieces so it is possible to count
>>>the number of 4 piece positions that can be reached from positions of 5 or 4
>>>pieces.
>>>
>>>I am not sure if all of them are legal but I cannot think about an example when
>>>a position with 4 pieces is illegal and can be reached from illegal 5 piece
>>>position.
>>>
>>>note that it is different with 5 piece position and 6 piece position and here is
>>>an example.
>>>
>>>[D]6k1/8/8/8/8/8/3P1P2/4B1K1 w - - 0 1
>>>
>>>illegal
>>>
>>>can be reached from
>>>[D]6R1/5k2/8/8/8/8/3P1P2/4B1K1 b - - 0 1
>>>also illegal.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>In a second thought
>>
>>This is illegal position that can be reached from illegal 5 piece position
>>
>>[D]8/8/8/8/8/1k6/1P6/B1K5 w - - 0 1
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>the 3 last positions are legal in Fischer-random-chess

Curse you! You beat me to the punch by 5 seconds!  ;)



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