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Subject: Re: Tablebase statistic

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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