text and then the Online tablebase results dialog will be displayed. To see all the move options in the current position and their evaluations click the more. Please note the 6 piece tablebases are only available in the Deep HIARCS Chess Explorer version. This tells you that with best play in the current position Black can win in 38 moves starting with the move 77.Rc4. The results if available are displayed in the Analysis Explorer pane, here is an example: Whenever you reach a endgame with 6 or fewer pieces on the board HIARCS Chess Explorer will try to determine the outcome of the game for you. Endgame Tablebases, (EGTBs or EGTs) precalculated endgame tables generated by an exhaustive retrograde analysis.During its game play and/or search, recognizing a specific material composition, a chess program can probe, or in principle compute these tables to determine the outcome of positions definitively and act as an oracle providing the optimal moves. This can lead to problems, see Section A. You don't automatically get the 3 men tablebases even if you have all 4 men tablebases for example. As such endgame tablebase files are specific to only one kind of endgame. In order of obtain this information the 'Use Hiarcs server' checkbox must be checked on. For example, if you have the file KNNKP, Chess programs that can use endgame tablebases, will play that endgame perfectly. The tablebase contains the game-theoretical value (win, loss, or draw) of each possible move in each possible position, and how many moves it would take to achieve that result with perfect play. Convekta Ltd announced the release of Lomonosov Tablebases reportedly the first complete 7-piece endgame database that includes 100-accurate predictions and optimal solutions to every single position possible within this limitation. Endgame tablebases An endgame tablebase is a computerized database that contains precalculated exhaustive analysis of a chess endgame position. This information is perfect, it knows the game result and if a win exists it can give the number of moves to checkmate with perfect play. Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases Chess Vitamin J. With HIARCS Chess Explorer you have automatic online access to about 1,000Gb of endgame databases with precise information about the game result and outcomes of each move available. For many customers this is simply not a practical solution for them. Also acquiring all this data can be very time consuming and even expensive, some retailers sell a small subset of the data on multiple DVDs, yet that gives you less than 5% of the data you need. While having tablebases stored locally can be useful for analysis, they do take up a lot of storage space with 6 piece tablebases taking up about 1,000 Gb of storage. The folders to access these databases should be set up in the Engine preferences tab along with the Nalimov cache setting. Any engine supporting Nalimov tablebases can utilise your local endgame tablebases. Endgame outcome information is available in endgame databases called Nalimov tablebases.