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Subject: Re: Half baked idea for an EGTB

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 09:37:47 09/10/99

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On September 09, 1999 at 21:57:28, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>Would it be feasible to generate an EGTB in the following manner: Instead of
>storing DTM or DTC in the EGTB, how about storing "nth generated move progresses
>towards mate"? It would seem this would be more compact in some endings. An old
>idea? Yes? No? Maybe? Incorporating a little primitive AI to order the moves
>generated would make the the tables even more compact.

	It would be useless for engines that probe the tablebases deep in the search.
In fact, any tablebase that stores moves instead of scores will have the same
problem.



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