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Subject: Re: Tablebase kppkpp?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:04:57 02/08/06

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On February 08, 2006 at 14:36:14, h.g.muller wrote:

>On February 08, 2006 at 12:24:45, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>So that particular 6 man tablebase file is the hardest one of all to make.  I
>>also guess it will be stupendous in size.  Probably the largest 6 man table base
>>file.
>
>And that while for any particular KppKpp ending you will get on the board the
>subsection of these databases that you are likely to need to find the win, if
>there is one, is almost trivial to make (perhaps in a few minutes)...

Of course you will also need to have all of the other tablebase files installed
on your machine.

Your program might decide to do underpromotion to knight or even bishop or rook
and so you would need to have available krnkqq and all the others.

Otherwise, it will not know what to do when conversions happen.



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