[Scid-users] Endgame diagrams

[pgeorges <pas...@fr...>]

Hi,

someone wanted to have a diagram showing in endings, for example KP-KQ 
the positions of the Pawn leading to a draw, a win or a loss for a fixed 
position of the other pieces. I wanted to code it and I discovered it 
already existed. This a really neat and impressive future !
See extract from the help file :
<Quote>
The results board
 
 In a tablebase position, it is often useful what the tablebase results 
would be if all the pieces in the current position were on their current 
squares but one particular piece was moved somewhere else. For example, 
you may want to determine how close a king has to be to a passed pawn to 
win or draw a particular position. In endgame books this information is 
often called the winning zone or drawing zone of a piece in a position.
 
 You can find this information in Scid by pressing the button with an 
image of a chessboard, to show the results board in the tablebase 
window. When you press the left mouse button on any piece in this board, 
a symbol is drawn in each empty square showing what the tablebase result 
would be (with the same side to move as the current main window 
position) if the selected piece was on that square.
 
 There are five different symbols a square can have: a white # means 
White wins; a black # means Black wins; a blue = means the position is 
drawn; a red X means the position is illegal (because the kings are 
adjacent or the side to move is giving check); and a red ? means the 
result is unknown because the necessary tablebase file is not available.
</Quote>

Pascal