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6-piece Endgame Turbo 5: why you need it

3/21/2018 – The new Endgame Turbo 5 represents the ultimate tablebase collection available and can be used simply by sticking it into a USB port on your computer. It contains the full 3-4-5 and 6-piece tablebases on a pen drive so that neither hard disk space or SSD drive are required to take advantage of them. However, the big question is what is so special about them and why you need them. Read on and find out!

New: Endgame Turbo 5 on USB stick

3/19/2018 – The new Endgame Turbo 5 offers reliable information to assess all 3-, 4-, and 5-piece endgames, plus 143 of the most important 6-piece endgames. The new turbo in Syzygy format is delivered on an USB stick and can also be used from this stick.

Endgame tablebases: A short history

3/16/2018 – One of the keystones to improving our understanding of the endgame is the endgame tablebase, a sort of oracle that first came into existence over 40 years ago. This revolutionary technology, that first saw light in the chess world thanks to computer scientist and pioneer Ken Thompson, has evolved a great deal since then. Here is a look at its beginnings and what each generation brought.

Just one of 17,823,400,766 positions

4/23/2015 – Last Tuesday we told you how difficult four-piece endings can be for humans, especially against a computer that understands them perfectly. Well, it's peanuts compared to five and six-piece endings where we sometimes have absolutely no idea what the program is doing and why. Still you can analyse them with your computer and recognize new ideas that can be used in other areas of the game.

Perfect endgame play – with tablebases

4/21/2015 – Can you win an endgame queen vs rook? Don't be so sure – even the best players on the planet can run into problems with it. Especially in rapid chess playoff games, with tens of thousands of dollars at stake. Computers, on the other hand, can handle engames with four, five and six pieces on the board with absolute perfection. And can be installed on your notebook computer.
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