Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 08:20:49 02/27/00
following the The "Brains of Earth" Challenge I've read this on the solution page (I've lost the url but if Frederic Friedel see that he could give it again): quote : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Endgame program I must add a note on the origin of these positions. John Nunn is currently experimenting with the Nalimov tablebases, which can contain up to three pawns (the Ken Thompson endgame databases only handle one pawn). But there is a second database program, written by Lars Rassmussen of Danmark, with which you can analyse up to seven pawns (in the current version excluding passed pawns). This program has revealed that pure pawn endgames are more complex than most people had ever thought possible. John's collection of six positions has proved that adequately. Many top class players, whom I will discretely not mention by name, were unable to solve the set. Once again, computers have shown us, how rich and diverse the game of chess is. Frederic Friedel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have anybody heard about the Lars Rassmussen pawn EGTB ? Is it possible to use this EGTB in a playing chess program ? Is there a homepage about this EGTB ? This king of EGTB is complementary to Namilov's EGTB because a position with seven pawns on board never turn in a position where all pawns go to promotion.
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