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Subject: Re: 6-man Chess solved

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 03:10:07 08/10/05

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On August 09, 2005 at 11:57:02, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On August 09, 2005 at 11:20:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 09, 2005 at 06:06:01, GuyHaworth wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I infer, from the fact that Eugene Nalimov sent me the KPPKPP stats file this
>>>morning, that 6-man chess is fully solved.  This is on the reasonable assumption
>>>that the EGTs have verified correctly as aok.
>>>
>>>My congratulations to Eugene on this achievement, a tribute to a professional,
>>>determined and robust approach to the challenge.
>>>
>>>My thanks also to Rob Hyatt for making the data accessible, and to those who
>>>have linked their chess engines to the EGTs and mined them for greater
>>>knowledge.
>>>
>>>This milestone is passed on the 48th Anniversary of the 1956 'Artificial
>>>Intelligence' conference at Dartmouth which targetted world-class computer chess
>>>as an AI aim.
>>>
>>>guy
>>
>>Don't forget that there is kpppkp and kppppkp remaining.  :)
>
>You may be surprised, but kpppkp is available for public download on
>ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/42p/
>
>I doubt that 5 vs. 1 TBs are interested by itself. They are necessary for 5 vs.
>2 TBs, but for now they are not needed...
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene
>
>>It isn't "quite" done yet...

Any files with more than 523 plies (the record so far), Eugene?

Helmut




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