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a 3-4-5-6-7-chessman endgame tablebase project by Sergey Yankovic, consisting of the //Retrospective Chess Generator//, a win64 application to generate appropriate DTM table base files, //RetroChess3//, a chess program and GUI to search and analyze chess positions, probing the tables, and //ChessDLL//, a win32 [|DLL] which implements the probing interface using FEN strings to pass the position.
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=Sample Probing Code= code format="cpp" const char * strfen = "6Q1/8/5k2/8/8/8/8/K7 w - -"; void* pRetroChess = InitCHESS; int dtm = GetEvaluateFromFEN(pRetroChess, strfen); if ( dtm != -2000 ) printf("Distance to mate is %d/n", dtm); else printf("Database does not exist or invalid FEN/n"); code =Forum Posts=
 * [|6-7-man tablebase generator] by Skipper_NORTON, CCRL Discussion Board, January 14, 2009
 * [|Other endgame tablebase generators] by Denis P. Mendoza, CCRL Discussion Board, January 28, 2009
 * [|EGTB generator] by Dann Corbit, CCC, January 30, 2009
 * [|Re: Generator of 3-4-5-6-7-chessman tablebases] by Ed Trice, CCRL Discussion Board, October 29, 2010
 * [|Generator of 3-4-5-6-7-chessman tablebases. Version 4] by Skipper_NORTON, CCRL Discussion Board, May 17, 2011
 * [|Sergey Yankovich's tablebase files] by Dann Corbit, CCRL Discussion Board, February 21, 2012
 * [|Re: Gaviota, bug fix release] by Crystalclear, Winboard Forum, July 06, 2012
 * [|Retrochess] by Rivenburg, CCRL Discussion Board, November 30, 2013

=External Links=
 * [|Chess EndGame Analyzer. Generator of 3-4-5-6-7-chessman tablebases - Download (RetroChess.rar)]

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