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Subject: Re: Pawn race tb

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:28:03 07/14/99

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On July 14, 1999 at 01:20:26, Dann Corbit wrote:

>It might be interesting to make a pawn race tablebase for large numbers of
>pieces.  Suppose that you have 2 king and x/y pawns left.  It might be
>worthwhile to compute "how many plies till I convert?  How many plies till enemy
>converts?"  If I have a two ply advantage, it seems significant.
>
>If you have a king and three pawns on both sides, we could never count all
>possibilities.  But we could find out how fast we can convert.


Probably everyone (or most everyone) already does a 'square of the pawn'
rule.  With bitmaps it takes a single AND to determine if a pawn can outrun
the king or not...



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