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- Scorpio constellation 1782, from Bode's revised and enlarged edition of Fortin's small star atlas of Flamsteed↩︎
Scorpio Bitbases,
are compact endgame bitbases created by Daniel Shawul with WDL information of up to 5-men, well suited to probe inside the search as applied in Daniel's engine Scorpio. The 5-men WDL holds in 200 MB. In order to make progress in won egtb-positions near the root, various evaluation heuristics are necessary to modify winning scores accordantly, considering material, ply-distance to the root, pawn closeness to promotion, distance of pieces to the opponent king, etc. 1 .
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Open Source
Scorpio Bitbases are open source, since October 2013 distributed under the BSD license 2 . Under Windows, probing is encapsulated via a Dynamic-link library, which already provides a heuristic score instead of pure WDL information in order to make progress at the root without the need to probe huge DTC/DTM tablebases. As of January 2014, Daniel finished the 6-men Scorpio Bitbases, available from Joshua Shriver's torrent site 3 4.
See also
- Bitbases
- Edwards' Tablebases
- Gaviota Tablebases
- Felicity Tablebases
- Lomonosov Tablebases
- Nalimov Tablebases
- Scorpio
- Syzygy Bases
- Thompson's Databases
Forum Posts
2005 ...
- Bitbases - yace, scorpio, gambitfruit by Bernhard Bauer, CCC, December 06, 2005
- Re: Open Source bitbase program by Daniel Shawul, CCC, April 12, 2007
- Scorpio BBs, licenses by Zach Wegner, CCC, January 28, 2008
- Scorpio bitbases by Manuel Peña, Winboard Forum, February 07, 2008
- Scorpio endgame bitbase specs? by Ilari Pihlajisto, CCC, December 02, 2008
- New Scorpio bitbase files by Dann Corbit, CCC, March 09, 2009
- Scorpio bitbases by Matthias Gemuh, CCC, April 06, 2009
- Scorpio bitbases with linux. Any success? by Joona Kiiski, CCC, April 29, 2009
- EGBB implementation by Michael Hoffmann, CCC, September 24, 2009
2010 ...
- Some tablebase formats by BB+, OpenChess Forum, November 25, 2010
- bitbase access by Scorpio versions... Dan Shawul? by Ernest Bonnem, CCC, May 28, 2012
- pawn enumeration by Daniel Shawul, CCC, July 24, 2012
- Re: Search with bitbase by Daniel Shawul, CCC, September 05, 2012
- Houdini 3 with Scorpio Bitbases Question by Milton Zucker, CCC, October 16, 2012
2013
- Re: syzygy question (for Ronald) by Daniel Shawul, CCC, October 04, 2013
- Scorpio Egbb Thread by Joshua Shriver, CCC, October 07, 2013
- What happens using egbb by Kai Laskos, CCC, October 12, 2013
- Scorpio E.G.T.B. by AxeFever, Rybka Forum, October 22, 2013
- Syzygy / egbb discussion by Daniel Shawul, CCC, October 23, 2013 » Syzygy Bases
- Scorpio bitbases question by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, December 25, 2013
2014 ...
- Scorpio 6men EGBB Now available by Joshua Shriver, CCC, January 14, 2014
- 50 Gb 6-men scorpio bitbases available by stackOVERFLOW, OpenChess Forum, January 14, 2014
- Stockfish goes EGBB by Daniel Shawul, CCC, January 29, 2014 » Stockfish
- Scorpio & egbb issue (OSX) by Max May, CCC, February 01, 2014 » KBNK Endgame
- Performance of Syzygy and Scorpio by Kai Laskos, CCC, February 04, 2014 » Syzygy Bases
- Problem position using Scorpio Egbbs by Ross Boyd, CCC, March 11, 2018
- Egbb dll neural network support by Daniel Shawul, CCC, May 29, 2018 » Neural Networks
2020 ...
- Re: Hacking around CFish NNUE by Daniel Shawul, CCC, October 15, 2020 » NNUE
- Re: How to scale stockfish NNUE score? by Daniel Shawul, CCC, October 17, 2020 » Stockfish NNUE
- EGBB (endgame bitbases) questions ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, November 15, 2020
External Links
- Scorpio Chess and Nebiyu Alien
- dshawul/egbbdll · GitHub
- dshawul/Scorpio · GitHub includes Six men egbb code
- OICS Chess and EGTB Tracker Statistics by Joshua Shriver 5
- Index of /tablebases/scorpio by kingliveson
References
Re: Search with bitbase by Daniel Shawul, CCC, September 05, 2012↩︎
Added liscense by Daniel Shawul, CCC, October 04, 2013↩︎
Scorpio 6men EGBB Now available by Joshua Shriver, CCC, January 14, 2014↩︎
dshawul/Scorpio · GitHub includes Six men egbb code↩︎