chess, the endgame tablebase, or simply tablebase, is a computerised database containing precalculated evaluations of endgame positions. Tablebases are used...
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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...
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Solving chess (section Endgame tablebases)
(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...
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Computer chess (section Endgame tablebases)
years, other endgame database formats have been released including the Edward Tablebase, the De Koning Database and the Nalimov Tablebase which is used...
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Evaluation function (section Endgame tablebases)
engines frequently use endgame tablebases in their evaluation function, as it allows the engine to play perfectly in the endgame. Historically, evaluation...
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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...
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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...
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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"...
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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...
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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...
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