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You can add a small opening book to your program, to help randomize opening lines.

But seriously Chris, Pooky? Haven't we moved on to Sage by now? May as well ask Sune for a new ChessCraft.

alpha123 wrote: There are 6-man Gaviota Tablebases?

Peter

Guess not. I think I need to retire from this hobby, I'm losing my mind.

I asked the question, because I had mistakenly thought that Tornado was using Gaviota tablebases, not the Nalimov ones.

That being said... are the 6 man Gaviota tablebases being hosted anywhere?

Hi Harun. Did you generate the 6 man files yourself, or did you download them?

Hi Jacob, please check your private messages, I sent you a link to Etude 0.1.2.

Tony

SOS 5.1 for Arena: 1/5 00:00 150 0 +2.17 Nf3g5 Qc7d8 2/8 00:00 316 0 +1.31 Nf3g5 Qc7d8 3/10 00:00 636 0 +1.07 Nf3g5 Qc7d8 Ng5xe6+ f7xe6 4/10 00:00 1.290 0 +1.11 Nf3xd4 Ne6xd4 Rh4xd4 Qc7b6 5/18 00:00 8.114 0 +1.11 Nf3xd4 Ne6xd4 Rh4xd4 Qc7b6 6/20 00:00 20.922 0 +1.11 Nf3xd4 Ne6xd4 Rh4xd4 Qc7b6 7/20 00...

Shouldn't it be a draw with opposite squared bishops? I don't know why Anand resigned. Yes, he made the position worse with Bc6, but I (and Rybka) don't see the path to victory for white. Hint. Try something else for the analysis. You know, Rybka is an old news... Do you serve any purpose on this f...

http://www.chesspraga.cz/download.htm

No book files, though, just the link to the engine.

Marc MP wrote:
What do you define as an endgame?

1. e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.Qxd8+ Kxd8 is an endgame? Or a middlegame without queens?

I'd call it an illegal sequence of moves.