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by Oded Ross
Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:27 pm
Forum: Endgame Tablebases
Topic: Longest checkmates
Replies: 17
Views: 20892

Re: maxDTM positions ... and lines

spreadsheet at http://www.icg.org The excel file you made containing both their works is superb. I often refer to it. icg.org now sends you to... International Crisis Group :twisted: Yeah I've noticed... But I did find out where did I find these excel sheets - John Tamplin's site , which is one of ...
by Oded Ross
Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:35 am
Forum: Endgame Tablebases
Topic: Longest checkmates
Replies: 17
Views: 20892

Re: maxDTM positions ... and lines

This is just toying, I think. Right now we are more in need for some more easy information to attact the general chess enthusiasts' attention to endgame tablebases. I am a chess enthusiast who with a particular liking of chess oddities and records, and this page is my favorite part on the site :) I...
by Oded Ross
Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:54 pm
Forum: Endgame Tablebases
Topic: Yearly Where are the 7-men Thread
Replies: 13
Views: 13714

Re: 7-man ...

Worth sizing the task before you get impatient about the fact that 7-man EGTs have not been published. The extra man makes the EGTs 60x the size of a 'corresponding' 6-man EGT, which means much more RAM for efficiency. Many will be much deeper. There were 365 6-man endgames, but there are 1001 7-ma...