Author: Mark Rawlings
Date: 05:31:15 12/17/99
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On December 17, 1999 at 06:13:40, guy haworth wrote: >Yes, the stats are a little misleading because the game may be 'on the way >through' that profile. In fact, the games averaged only 7 moves in the >nominated profile - compared to theoretical depths now going up to 243 (KRNKNN). > Did Eugene ever finish this tablebase? I am curious what the distance to mate is. (I assume 243 is distance to conversion.) Mark >I've read somewhere that there are very few instances of serious players trying >to win KBBKN at any great depth. > >I don't have ChessBase's databases so can't do the 5-man search. Those with a >small 'force difference' will be of most interest to you as presumably a search >engine can win KQRNK etc. > >There were some duplicates in Fatbase and my stats were after these were >removed. The existence of EG tables means that computers will now 'home in' on >endgame-wins identified on their search engine's radar. > >Guy
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