Hi Fulvio. Why impossible? I thought Scid could access end game table bases? The format even provides distance to mate information for each position according to http://scid.sourceforge.net/tutorial/t_tool_egtb.html
Or is this only through the chess engines? Nils (P.S. Thank you for your many, many years of work on Scid!) On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Fulvio <f...@libero.it> wrote: > Dimis Poulos wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > what I miss is an option to count pieces on board in board search > > function. Since I use several databases of endgame positions and chess > > problems this is importnant. For example you want to find the endgame > > positions with fieve or less pieces on board or find the mate in two > > possitions with seven pieces on board. > > > > Interesting. > Finding the positions with less than x pieces should not be too hard to > implement. > Finding the positions with less than x pieces where there is a mate in 2 > is probably impossible. > Bye, > Fulvio > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users >
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