chess, the endgame tablebase, or simply tablebase, is a computerised database containing precalculated evaluations of endgame positions. Tablebases are used...

reach an endgame; some of them end earlier. All chess positions with up to seven pieces on the board have been solved by endgame tablebases, so the outcome...

(if ever). Progress to date is extremely limited; there are tablebases of perfect endgame play with a small number of pieces (up to seven), and some chess...

years, other endgame database formats have been released including the Edward Tablebase, the De Koning Database and the Nalimov Tablebase which is used...

engines frequently use endgame tablebases in their evaluation function, as it allows the engine to play perfectly in the endgame. Historically, evaluation...

reference to endgame tablebases. Tablebases do not consider the 50- or 75-move rules, so a position that is a theoretical win according to the tablebases may be...

encoding, and his work on computer chess that included the creation of endgame tablebases and the chess machine Belle. He won the Turing Award in 1983 with...

three books based on the most important endgames in the five-piece endgame tablebases but omitted this endgame because "... it proved too hard to understand"...

pieces, queen versus rook was one of the first endings to be solved by endgame tablebases. Just after the ending was fully analysed by computers, a challenge...

involves analyzing the endgame with two knights versus a pawn, see Troitsky line. John Nunn analyzed this endgame with an endgame tablebase and stated that "the...