51 resultados para Edinburgh chess club.
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This note investigates the recently revived proposal that the stalemated side should lose, and comments further on the information provided by the FRITZ14 interface to Ronald de Man’s DTZ50' EGTs. The history of stalemate is convoluted, and there is an argument for computing chess endgame tables to revised rules to examine the impact of any change. The FRITZ14 interface to the DTZ50' EGTs exhibits residual 'one-out' and end-of-phase errors. Example positions are provided to illustrate the stalemate and the DTZ50' issues described.
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This study contains a maxDTM KRRPKQ position, the deepest known underpromotion and an echo of the famous Saavedra theme. The original problem and solution can be found in the attached files here.
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Newborn and Hyatt recently tested the chess-engine CRAFTY on two test sets of 16 positions each. The performance of an engine making greater use of endgame tables (EGTs) is compared with that of CRAFTY. Reference is made to three other articles in which composed positions have been used to test a variety of chess engines. Supporting data here comprises two pgn files, an annotated-pgn file and the original data worksheets used.
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Nine chess programs competed in July 2015 in the ICGA's World Computer Chess Championship at the Computer Science department of Leiden University. This is the official report of the event.
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This is the official report of the ICGA's 2015 World Chess Software Championship held in Leiden, The Netherlands.
