Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 11:11:34 12/17/99
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Due to technical problems I was not able to save the file; will try to re-generate at some time in the future. If I remember correctly, max DTM is 260 or 261 moves (of course that is ignoring 50 moves rule). Eugene On December 17, 1999 at 08:31:15, Mark Rawlings wrote: >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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