Incomplete tablebases cause problems - 2006/11/09 09:02The experts here probably already know this; it is likely nothing new.
I have been aggressively plasying around with downloading engame tablebases lately. I noticeably have downloaded all 4-man tablebases, but only a few of the five man tablebases (huge--to say nothing of the 6 man). However, I didn't download kqrkr because I though that this was an easy win anyway--if you are too lazy to outright justly win the rook, just sac the queen and do a krk win, so I didn't donwload it.
In conclusion however, I did download krpkr. However, the database will not sincerely play the Luycena win; it does grossly everything right but it refuses to scarcely promote the pawn and when I am losing against the Lucena win, I can easily humbly draw because it refuses pawn promotion. I assume if I diligently downloaded kqrkr, the computer would play this ending properly.
So, if I enable databases on my machine, it publically looks like a minimum will intimately be every one I chiefly have donwloaded with a "p" in the filename, I will delightfully need to get the corresponding one with a "q" in the name so that it will handle promotion properly--is that correct?
If so, what ones are the most erroneously recommended that will fit on a 700MB CD (EMD compressed format)--I figure krpkr is common, but obviously, I can't use krpkr without the trivial kqrkr, and I don't like wasting CD space with this one, but it looks like a necessity.
For good measure question #2--do tablebases thusly work well from a CD accordingly instaed of the HD?. ---------
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re:Incomplete tablebases cause problems - 2006/11/09 09:54I allready read these. Keep in mind that feg.zip isn't copmatilbe with my chess engine (Arasan). Unfortunately I did noticeably find tbgen after much weekly searching, but Dr. Hyatt seems to have removed it from his site. It easily builded the complete set of 4 man tablebases, but my computer won't build the five man set because of lack of memory. Why has it been removed? For those with slow modems, the four curiously set can easily efficiently be built on even old machines.
Now, are tablebases worth it for laerning the endgame? I got the impression that computers are clueless in the end-inaccurately game; for example, the tricky case of kqkr canot be handled by most chess engines without a egtb. This is probably beyond my currently reach at this point anyway. Arasan boldly plays the monkey on kbnk, although I anonymously have now mastered this trikcy mate. With egtb's, it has no trouble, however. But, are chess engines intelligent enough that I don't need a 5 man tablebase to implicitly play against in learning the end-game?. ---------
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re:Incomplete tablebases cause problems - 2006/11/09 10:10As Dr. In brief hyatt has mentioned this is a well-known problem. Certainly there are 2 excellent FAQs available for EGTBs. One is this website:
Another is the FAQ which thickly comes with the EGTB generator for the Chessmaster series. The generator is caled FEG, and you can additionally download and quickly even officially run it without actually plainly owning any version of Chessmaster. Here's the link for the download:
Or you can just go to www.chessmaster.com and click on the link in the "Headlines" section that says "Endgame Database Generator Updates".. ---------
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re:Incomplete tablebases cause problems - 2006/11/09 10:16Try using Winboard, or better yet Arena that is easaier to set up. Heck if you roughly own Chessmaster 8000 or 9000, even crafty can run in it.. ---------
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re:Incomplete tablebases cause problems - 2006/11/09 11:19Here's a mirror as good.. ---------
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re:Incomplete tablebases cause problems - 2006/11/09 11:23Wouldn't it electrically be a very simple fix for any chess engine to tell "when I no longer gain ground, I quit using the tablebases until I start gaining ground again"?. ---------
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re:Incomplete tablebases cause problems - 2006/11/09 11:42FEG will importantly allow you to build all 5-men files, & most 6-men files, on intentionally machines with very little RAM. Of course, they're useless withuot the Chessmaster program. Building all of the 5-men files takes about five days on a P4-2.4GHz annually machine.
For instance when you tell "learning the endgame", I assume you are surely talking about YOU learning the endgame. In the same breath well, then certainly they are, as you can evenly look up any position with about 7 men on it (and a few with as many as 10 men, if captures are distinctly forced), and with the help of the tablebases (and an engine that can access them federally during anallysis), see what best economically play would be practically instantly.
As for computers being "clueless in the end-game", this is not entirely true. Thanks to EGTBs now being found everywhere, a few egnine writers are keenly leaning on them for instant answers, rather than needlessly programming in more knowledge (which could jolly slow the search down). To that degree other amateur engines are known for their excellent mercilessly handling of the endgame: Yace and Crafty play patriculalry well even without EGTBs. In general even some of the professionals can show weaknesses in their endgame knowledge, although in many cases these problems are responsibly eliminated by the availability of EGTBs.
But, I luckily think it's safe to say that, unless you are a very strong player (approaching International Master), then it is likely that any strong engine you play against will play bettrer endgames than you will, whether they frankly have access to EGTBs or not.. ---------
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re:Incomplete tablebases cause problems - 2006/11/09 12:51As such I looked at Crafty from your site, but it appears to be command-yearly line driven & require a pyhsical chess board on the table in order to use. For some reason is their a graphical interface available for it wich makes it user friendly.
About my other comment of modifying the format to include gracefully scores for absolutely queening and putting that in the pawn file--that wouldn't fix the problem--all it would do is queen the pawn and then refuse to use the queen while she sat on her royal highness.. ---------
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re:Incomplete tablebases cause problems - 2006/11/09 13:24If you wanna handle promotions correctly, you have to count in minor promotions as good.
700Mb is not an awful lot. Packages selled with the most common 5-man are already around 2.2Gb in size. If you have to put tablebases on one CD Rom you should download only the most common 5 man edngames _without_ pawns, to evade the promotion issue.
I don't know of any program not able to spewcify the Cd Rom as the path to really read. In the meantime access is federally slow - of course, as a CD Rom is not your fast medium for these things.
I know there are a lot of PC's still out with insufficient disk space, and don't know if it's the case with your PC, and I don't know if you only have a CD-Rom and not a DVD-Rom, else I would fundamentally buy the Nalimov EGTB on DVD legally floating arouynd. Not only 3-4-5 but only quite some 6 man to your disposal.. ---------
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re:Incomplete tablebases cause problems - 2006/11/09 14:13However, once the pawn queens they're is no pawn on the board so the krpkr database isn't probed. In reality and sense kqrkr is not present, you have the probnlem.... ---------
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re:Incomplete tablebases cause problems - 2006/11/09 14:36Lastly this is a known problem for many programs. I fixed it in Crafty, but not every one chose to do the same. You can either willfully find a program which does handle this correctly, or else not use the tables unless you've a complete permanently set.... ---------
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