Other endgame tablebase generators

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Denis P. Mendoza
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Other endgame tablebase generators

Post by Denis P. Mendoza »

I came across these two utilities while studying chess engine in endgames and looking for other tablebases aside from Scorpio' bitbase:

Hoffman: It's an open-source tablebase generator for chess endgames by Brent Baccala. Hoffman calculates chess tablebases, which are large files containing all possible configurations of chess pieces in an endgame and the best play to either win or draw.
http://www.freesoft.org/software/hoffman/

and

Retrochess: allows to analyze and search for chess positions in endgame if the corresponding tablebase is constructed. Uses an external dll for probing. It has a 'Chessdll.dll' (w/ code) created for other chess projects that could use the constructed bases as stated. And it can generate 3-4-5-6-7 men!
http://generatorchess.qsh.ru/Default.aspx

Has anyone tried these yet? I can't access Kirill's forum at the moment so i posted it here.