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Subject: Re: Crafty Tablebase Probes

Author: blass uri

Date: 22:54:24 08/26/99

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On August 27, 1999 at 00:06:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 26, 1999 at 20:21:04, Mark Rawlings wrote:
>
>>I _finally_ got all of the 5-piece tablebases to use with Crafty and Winboard!
>>These things are great for analyzing endgames.  Still waiting for the 6-piece
>>files to be posted :)
>>
>>Anyway, what is a "successful" tablebase probe?  I thought when you have the
>>whole set, all probes were successful?  Thanks,
>>
>>Mark
>
>
>Note that you don't have the "whole set" because we didn't build the 4 vs 1
>piece files.  You can, but they take up a whole lot more space, and I don't
>think crafty needs those to win the positions.. :)

There are some 3 vs 2 tablebases that crafty does not need to win the position.

For example KQRvs KP,KQR vs KN

Uri



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