Author: Marc Bourzutschky
Date: 17:54:03 10/18/05
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On October 18, 2005 at 20:03:56, Les Fernandez wrote: >On October 18, 2005 at 12:37:17, Marc Bourzutschky wrote: > >>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 > >Hi Marc, > >I agree that from the standpoint of playing chess there is no point in >generating the 1-6 endings but from my perspective I have been doing a bunch of >studies on all the end game sets that have been generated so far and it is very >important for me to get the complete data sets. I have mentioned to Eugene in >the past that I would only hope that when he is done with all the 6 piece EGTB's >if he might consider that 1-5 set and the jury is still out. I am sure that >those positions like 1-5 or 1-6 should solve pretty quickly and I would do them >if I had the extra equipment to do so. > >Thanks, > >Les You missed the point here. The 1-5 and 1-6 databases contain information at all. All the information is in the 5-1 and 6-1 databases. -Marc
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