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'''Syzygy Bases''', <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47681&start=45 Re: New 6-piece tablebases] by [[Ronald de Man]], [[CCC]], April 10, 2013</ref><br/>
a compact six piece endgame database developed by [[Ronald de Man]], published on April 01, 2013. Since August 2018, '''seven piece''' Syzygy Bases are available after an effort by [[Bojun Guo]] started in March 2018 <ref>[http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=66797&start=472 Re: 7-men Syzygy attempt] by [[Bojun Guo]], [[CCC]], August 19, 2018 </ref>. The generator is released under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU General Public License Version 2]], the [[Thread|thread safe]] probing code is released without restrictions <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47681 New 6-piece tablebases] by [[Ronald de Man]], [[CCC]], April 01, 2013</ref> . As of February 2015, all 3-5 and most important 6-men Syzygy Bases are commercially available on 4 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD DVDs] by [[ChessBase]] as ''Endgame Turbo 4'' for their products [[Fritz|Deep Fritz 14]], [[Komodo#8|Komodo Chess 8]], [[Houdini|Houdini 4]] or [[ChessBase (Database)|ChessBase 12/13]] <ref>[http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/endspiel_turbo_4 Endgame Turbo 4] by [[ChessBase]]</ref> <ref>[http://en.chessbase.com/post/syzygy-tablebases-newest-fastest-smallest Syzygy Tablebases: newest, fastest, smallest] by [[Albert Silver]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], February 08, 2015</ref>.
=Data=
* [[Endgame Tablebases#DTZ50|DTZ50]] metric may lead the engines to win in much longer ways, compared with [[Endgame Tablebases#DTM|DTM]] one
=Data publish====DVD===As of February 2015, all 3-5 and most important 6-men Syzygy Bases are commercially available on 4 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD DVDs] by [[ChessBase]] as ''Endgame Turbo 4'' for their products [[Fritz|Deep Fritz 14]], [[Komodo#8|Komodo Chess 8]], [[Houdini|Houdini 4]] or [[ChessBase (Database)|ChessBase 12/13]] <ref>[http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/endspiel_turbo_4 Endgame Download=Turbo 4] by [[ChessBase]]</ref> <ref>[http://en.chessbase.com/post/syzygy-tablebases-newest-fastest-smallest Syzygy Tablebases: newest, fastest, smallest] by [[Albert Silver]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], February 08, 2015</ref>.  
[[Ronald de Man]] has provided only open source code for generators/probers but not endgame files themselves. Using his tools some people have generated endgames and published them online via some servers such as FTP server of [[Bojun Guo]], [[Lichess]] server.
==Download==
===3-6 men===
The sizes of those men are small enough to download and store on modern computers. Users should download them in full sets (3, 4, 5, 6 men).

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