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@sarciness actually a typical tablebase will not tell you whether help mates are possible or not as a TB typically only looks at best continuations, not worst. Though such an alternate tablebases coul…

@risky-chess well, perft 15 (i.e. number of 15 half moves = 7.5 moves games) is already 2,015,099,950,053,364,471,960 so the numbers do get rather big. Even that number is already more than the number…

You can certainly bring your opponent out of prep like that, problem is you pay a heavy price by playing not just the worst possible first move, but also worst by quite some margin. While I don't thin…

Short castling indeed is legal there, but you have to move it as e1-h1 i.e. moving onto the rook. The reason for that is as follows: Imagine your king started on f1 instead. Then f1-g1 could just be a…

Yes, there's nothing worse than BOTs spamming a thread. I have no idea why they do it.

@SharpMind1 You once again miss the point. To prove a game like chess you would never ever build the entire game tree. The point is you build a big, maybe even 32 men TB instead. Here's why: The numbe…

First of all it depend on who tries to not lose here. Obviously you'll want to have separate searches for White trying to not lose and Black trying to not lose. If White tries to not lose he can end t…

@tpr well, that's not really true. You don't need to look at every game possible, you just need to find strategies for both White and Black that do not lose. The longest possible game may be both side…

@SharpMind1 That's not really the point though. As pointed out before you only need 32 men TB, which are much smaller than 10^120, small enough in fact to in theory be feasible. However even then ther…

Wow, so far my bot has won no matches and yet made it to round 5 now. :P While it is only a matter of time until Stockfish actually shows up and crushes it, so far that has not happened...