#Syzygy endgame tablebases dvd 64 Bit
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But because I found two positions where this was not the case so quickly, it is reasonable to assume that that inaccuracies will be returned in many, if not most, chess problems.SEE is written in C++, and currently it is just a Stockfish engine with an additional UCI command 'see'. So, can anyone out there tell me what is going on here? Are the Syzygy tablebases being sold by Chessbase not compiled correctly? As I noted earlier, in many positions the Syzygy tablebases do return the best move for the top choice. Looking down the list of moves in the Nalimov program, I discover that Kf6 is ranked #13 with 16 moves to checkmate! I tried playing this problem against the computer in the program running the Syzygy tablebases, and once again the computer automatically used the top move recommended by the tablebase. Comparing it to the results from the program running the Nalimov tablebases, I immediately notice that the best move is Qh5+, with 7 moves until black is checkmated with optimal play. The top move recommended by Syzygy here is Kf6. In the second example, the Syzygy tablebase returned an inferior move immediately. The interesting thing is that the Syzygy tablebase returned the best move as the top result on all the earlier moves in the problem. Apparently when doing analysis the program assumes the tablebase is returning the best move as the top result and doesn't look at other options. Sure enough, the program used the top choice and selected Kxf5 instead of the more precise Qg5#. So I went back to the beginning of the problem and had the program play black while I played white.

I wondered if the stockfish engine would be able to catch this problem and play Qg5# even though it was not the top result. The program using the Nalimov tablebases returns the best move for the top choice. This best move is the 4th choice returned by the Syzygy tablebases. The top result is Kxf5, even though Qg5 is a better move because it immediately checkmates white. I also tried running the Fritz 14 interface with the Syzygy tablebases and it also made no difference.Д®xample 1 shows the Syzygy results for this position with black to move. FYI, I have tried using running other engines on these same interfaces but it made no difference in the results.

#Syzygy endgame tablebases dvd 64 Bit

I have the Fritz 16 interface running the Stockfish 9 64 bit engine using the Syzygy tablebases, and a Fritz 14 interface running Stockfish 9 using the Nalimov tablebases. This is easy to verify by comparing the same problem using the Nalimov tablebases.ДЇor this testing I am using all chessbase products. However, I have discovered that sometimes I am getting less optimal moves as the top result with the Syzygy tablebases, leading to a greater number of moves to checkmate. I decided that I don't necessarily need to know the number of moves to checkmate as long as the tablebase always returns the best move for the top result, followed by the next best move, and so on. I researched this on the forum and found a posting where an experienced user of the Syzygy product explained that this newer tablebase does not provide that information, so it is normal for the results not to display this information. The first thing I noticed is that Syzygy tablebases don't return the number of moves to checkmate like the Nalimov tablebases do.

I kept the Nalimov tablebases installed so that I could compare results with Syzygy tablebases. So I recently installed the Turbo 5 Syzygy tablebases put out by chessbase. I read that the Syzygy tablebases use substantially less hard drive space and don't slow down the engine like the Nalimov tablebases do.

#Syzygy endgame tablebases dvd full

They have always worked well for this purpose, but they slow down the engine substantially during analysis of full games and they take up a lot of hard drive space, limiting me to the 3 piece through 5 piece set. For years I have used Nalimov tablebases to help me analyze endgame problems.