Author: David H. McClain
Date: 08:44:30 01/10/06
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On January 10, 2006 at 07:55:17, GuyHaworth wrote: > >... and there have been announcements on CCC about them. > >When last heard, Marc Bourzutschky was working with Yakov Konoval, helping YK >develop a high-powered Pentium-Assembler program to compute 7-man EGTs. These >EGTs are to the DTZ, not the DTM, metric. > >Marc had previously extended his evolution of Nalimov's 'gtbgen' to do KNNNNKQ >but found YK's program much faster. > >Marc has reported results here, including a new record (KRRNKRR)maxDTZ = 290 >superceding the KRNKNN DTZ depth of 243: > r7/5r1N/8/8/8/6R1/6R1/3K1k2 w > >Krabbe's Chess Diary in a recent item carries more information about that and >about several of the ~50 endgames that had been addressed at the last mention. > >The work is 'in development' rather than pure production yet, so it is not clear >when MB/YK will cut a slice of descriptive text and tell us more. > > >The 7-man pawnless endgames are the first pawnless endgames to include >full-point mzugs. > >g Guy, Could you explain what the acronyms mean regarding the Wilhelm EGTBs validity checks: DTM, DTZ, etc.? DHM
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