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Subject: Re: How many 7-man Pawnless endgames?!

Author: Marc Bourzutschky

Date: 09:37:17 10/18/05

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On October 18, 2005 at 11:12:03, GuyHaworth wrote:

>
>I question your '736'.
>
>I have:
>
>  056  6-1 endgames
>  140  5-2 endgames
>  200  4-3 endgames
>  ---
>  396  endgames
>
>... and therefore 792 endgames, if you also count the 3-4, 2-5 and 1-6 endgames.
>
>Have I gone wrong somewhere?
>
>g

All entries in a 1-N database are trivially either "not-won" or "not-lost", so
there is no point in generating it.  If you exclude the 56 1-6 endings from your
count you get Yakov's 736.

-Marc



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