Author: h.g.muller
Date: 10:16:42 03/02/06
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Without being able to boast an engine that can solve this, I still dare to say that this points out a serious flaw in how computers think in the end game. Building a table-base for this 13-men end-game 'behind the board' is probably still asking too much. (There are 3,3 million reachable Pawn structures, including promotions, making for a TB size of about 13GB...). But when the situation is too complicated to built a TB for the current position, it is customary to build a TB for a subset of the pieces likely to occur, and use that TB for probing during the search. With Pawns clearly separated in groups on both wings, an obvious thing to investigate would be what happened if one of the wings was gone, since a normal search is likely to go only deep enough to resolve the battle on one wing. The Pawn structure on the Queen's wing has 48k reachable Pawn conformations, together with 2 Kings that gives ~192
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