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Subject: Re: ep?

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 20:37:53 12/12/05

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On December 12, 2005 at 15:23:31, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On December 12, 2005 at 15:17:01, James Constance wrote:
>
>>Do tablebases not take accound of en passant?
>
>For the most part, no.
>
>They assume that by the time you are down to 6 chessmen left on the board, you
>don't need to worry about it.
>
>Of course, sometimes that is wrong.

Castling is ignored as well. It's possible to construct examples, but I'm not
aware of any real games that have been played where king and rook are still in
legal castling positions when only six pieces are left on the board.




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