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Subject: Re: 7-man endgames (long)

Author: Joshua Shriver

Date: 12:57:51 08/29/05

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Good Afternoon,

      What is the WDL format? I've unsuccessfully been able to find information
on it. Is it a chess specific compression of general data?

-Josh

>
>It's just computational problem, all you need is 1 array of 2 TB to
>generate it, and after that supercompress it to WDL format. DTZ is
>perhaps interesting to generate if your goal is to publish near to
>maximin positions, but from computerchess viewpoint what matters is the
>result in the game. That can be either one of the next 3: win, draw or loss.
>
>Supercompressed this EGTB in wdl is like 3GB.
>
>Additional i'm interested in knowing what from their database what the longest
>win is for the KRB side in the KRBNKRB egtb.
>
>Vincent



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