Generating Endgame Tablebases - 2008/08/28 17:40Hello this is my first post...
I have began to generate tablebases with my own program. I understand the basic algortihm (retrograde analysis) and now I would like to know some tips and tricks to: - speed up the generation process - compression techniques - other tips
Generating Endgame Tablebases - 2008/08/28 18:57Hi EricLang, welcome to the forum
I am sure one of the (very nice) members here will come to your rescue soon - and advise you. Unfortunately I cannot do so since I am not that far advanced myself, but I am lucky to be learning from this forum more and more each time. I hope you will as well
Re:Generating Endgame Tablebases - 2008/08/31 00:59Databases for chess endgames with 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 pieces. All possible positions are analysed. So when these databases are created chess engines can use them and play these endgames perfectly.
Re:Generating Endgame Tablebases - 2008/08/31 15:09and these Tablebases enable the computer sometimes to announce a mate in 262. I still like the article that Tim Krabbé has written about this particular KRNKNN endgame: Play Chess with God
Re:Generating Endgame Tablebases - 2008/08/31 15:37I can't understand the "unique triangle" compression. I use a 4x4 quadrant compression, which i do understand. Another thing is compression: i am not able to compress as good as the Nalimov tables, although I use a good compression algorithm
Re:Generating Endgame Tablebases - 2008/09/04 13:30For comparison, you can check out my program which creates endgame tablebases and lets you play against them. Get it at http://matemonster.net if you want.
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