The magic of 7-piece endgame tablebases

by Karsten Müller
2/3/2020 – The latest 7-piece tablebases are now available in the ChessBase web app "Let's Check". Our endgame expert, Grandmaster Karsten Mueller recently took a look at the latest development in endgame theory by comparing his pre-7-piece-tablebase analysis of several games with the latest computer-aided definitive conclusion, including an "analysis duel" with GM Mihail Marin. Video and analysis...

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Let's Check, shall we?

"It's really fascinating what is possible nowadays thanks to the technological progress", Dr. Karsten Mueller recently opined.

ChessBase has recently incorporated a version of the 7-piece tablebases into the cloud-based Let's Check web app, part of the ChessBase account.

The algorithm of retrograde analysis was proved correct as far back as 1912, but only became practical with the advent of powerful computers. In the video below Mueller recounts how tablebases have improved and evolved over the past decade, and shows examples, which you can replay on your own in the game viewer below as well.

 

Click or tap a game in the list to switch between the positions GM Mueller discusses


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Endgame Turbo 5: 6-piece tablebase on a USB stick

The latest 7-piece tablebases are still too large to use at this point within ChessBase with a local engine, however you can have access to 6-piece tablebases wherever you are, even without and internet connection thanks to Endgame Turbo 5.

With the Endgame Turbo 5, engines play endgames with six pieces or fewer perfectly, but they also play endgames with more than six pieces much better because the Endgame Turbo lets them know which six-piece-endgames are won, drawn or lost. It helps you to improve your endgame play, and is a powerful tool for correspondence players, endgame theoreticians, friends of engine matches, and anyone interested in the endgame phase!

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Karsten Müller is considered to be one of the greatest endgame experts in the world. His books on the endgame - among them "Fundamentals of Chess Endings", co-authored with Frank Lamprecht, that helped to improve Magnus Carlsen's endgame knowledge - and his endgame columns for the ChessCafe website and the ChessBase Magazine helped to establish and to confirm this reputation. Karsten's Fritztrainer DVDs on the endgame are bestsellers. The mathematician with a PhD lives in Hamburg, and for more than 25 years he has been scoring points for the Hamburger Schachklub (HSK) in the Bundesliga.

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