What this means is that during your own analyses, you will now be able follow a line all the way into a 6-piece position and check your tablebase to see if the position is winning, drawing or losing.Ĭ is now working on setting up a new tablebase feature that can be accessed directly from analysis. It's been frequently expressed that such a tool should be allowed because it is a human-derived resource in the same vein as theoretical opening books.Ĭ has decided to follow our members in embracing any-piece tablebases during all stages of your daily chess games.
Now, we leave you with a particularly concise comment that I very much enjoyed about our previous decision:Įndgame tablebases have recently become an integral part of correspondence chess, to the extent that they are even used to adjudicate games in ≤6-piece positions in ICCF tournaments. We feel confident now that Daily Chess on is better without tablebases, and we apologize to all of our members both for the initial mistake of introducing the change, and for the confusion surrounding the issue. We ultimately just want to ensure that our members have the best playing experience possible. This experience has served, in many ways, as a wake-up call to help us at realize why we have Daily Chess and what makes it so special: the hard work and analysis from the past games and experiences of all humans, that we then use to help us play the best chess games we can.not engine evaluations or tablebase solutions on how best to approach a position. While the future of tablebases and deep, "tech-driven" analysis of chess is in some ways uncertain, what seems clear is that those tools like tablebases will only improve, solving more and more of our game (backwards to forwards).
To reflect on what happened here, we can say that we tried this change based on the fact that it seemed as if our members were calling for it, but in hindsight, it seems we were unaware of how many would be opposed. The only help you will be able to receive while in a correspondence endgame will be books and human analyses. There will be a buffer period of 10 days for everyone to receive the message, after which tablebase use, if detected, may be met with an account ban. You'll note an updated rules section found here which makes clear that any forms of tablebase referencing will, once again, be considered a Fair Play violation. In response to member feedback, as well as a long discussion within the team regarding these changes, we've decided to reverse our decision to allow endgame tablebases to be used in any forms of Daily Chess on our site.