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    the endgame tablebase, or simply the 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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  • (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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    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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  • Nd7 and 3...Bxf6 hold the draw. (ii) the modern Lomonosov 7-piece endgame tablebase shows White has a win after 4...Bxf6 with 5.Re2+, sacrificing White's...
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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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  • construction of endgame tablebases. Grandmaster John Nunn wrote a book (Secrets of Pawnless Endings) summarizing the research of endgame tablebases for several...
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  • Troitsky line] and above". John Nunn analyzed the endgame of two knights versus a pawn with an endgame tablebase and stated that "the analysis of Troitsky and...
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  • system. endgame The third and last phase of the game, when there are few pieces left on the board. The endgame follows the middlegame. endgame tablebase A computerized...
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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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  • October 2013. http://chessok.com/Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases "7-piece-endgame-tablebase (chess)". Stack Exchange. Aviezri Fraenkel;...
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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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    Chess (section Endgame)
    published a tablebase for select six-piece endgames, and by 2005, following the publication of Nalimov tablebases, all six-piece endgame positions were...
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  • hardest endgames to draw." Being a five-piece endgame, the rook and bishop versus rook endgame has been fully analysed using computers. Endgame tablebases show...
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    August 6, 2020. Chess engines frequently use endgame tablebases to quickly and accurately evaluate endgame positions. Historically, evaluation functions...
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    engines use endgame tablebases to increase their playing strength during the endgame. An endgame tablebase includes all possible endgame positions with...
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    Pawnless chess endgame § Minor pieces only and Chess endgame § Effect of tablebases on endgame theory). Several important works on the endgame have been published...
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    but was defeated by Leela Chess Zero after blundering in a 7-man endgame tablebase draw. It turned this result around in the fourth edition, defeating...
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  • benefit from solutions of the game from certain endgame positions (in the form of endgame tablebases), which will allow it to play perfectly after some...
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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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  • "Is there a freely available online 7 piece Endgame tablebase?". Stack Exchange. "Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases". ChessOK. Archived from the original on April...
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    became simple enough to use an endgame tablebase. As of October 1999, however, there were no seven-piece endgame tablebases, and seven pieces remained in...
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  • constructing endgame tablebases. Some endgame books are general works about many different kinds of endgames whereas others are limited to specific endgames such...
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  • Fortress (chess) (category Chess endgames)
    fail to recognize fortress-type positions (unless using a suitable endgame tablebase) and incorrectly claim a winning advantage in them. This article uses...
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    where players attempt to establish connections Endgame tablebase, a database saying how to play endgames Expectiminimax tree, an adaptation of a minimax...
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  • responsibility for handling endgame tablebases, this is arguably better handled in the engine itself, as having tablebase information can be useful for...
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  • In the game of chess, an endgame study, or just study, is a type of chess problem that starts with a composed position—i.e. one that has been made up...
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  • 130. Kh3 Qe6? (diagram) This was the losing move according to the endgame tablebases. The queen should have remained behind the pawns in order to hold...
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    more tablebases are created and tablebases are more deeply data-mined. Nunn is thus (as of 2004) the foremost data miner of chess endgame tablebases. Nunn...
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  • contain data from prior games and provide engine analyses of games. Endgame tablebases are also provided by the company. ChessBase's Indian YouTube channel...
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