Endgame tablebase
Base de datos de tablas de finales
- Date
- 1977 (primeras tablas) / 1998 (tablas de Nalimov) · confidence medium
- Place
- Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States
- Credited to
- Ken Thompson
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A computerized database of precalculated evaluations for every legal position in a chess endgame with few pieces, first generated by Ken Thompson at Bell Labs in the late 1970s and later popularized by the Nalimov tablebases.
What it led to
- The Nalimov tablebases (1998), a standard format in chess engines
- Complete solving of endgames with up to seven pieces (the Lomonosov project)
- Use in analysis and training by elite chess players