Since the positions are with in 6 men it returns the correct result immediately. Search depth goes to maximum = 100, but it will not give you PV.
Most of them are draws so it doesn't think further. But for wins it tries to choose among the winning options by searching first half of the total depth ...

I got some ample time last couple of hours so I decided to implement EGBBs in the world's stongest engines. I have implemented them quickly and they seem to work fine for up to 6 men. Source code is here https://github.com/dshawul/Stockfish/commits/master . Once everything is finalized I will start ...

Six men scorpio bitbases are available for download free of charge.

Some of the advantages are:
1) Very compact about 48.1G. So you can have them on 50gb flash drives for instance.
No need for super expensive SSD drives

2) Have been around the block for over 10 years. No need to over-hype them ...

A BBC article posted today talks about it. They call the success in chess a cheap trick!

The most exciting game for me, among many others I have programmed, happens to be one I casually participated in for 2 months,
the Google AI challenge 2011 - Ants. It seems this sentiment is shared with many other participants as well, and it not just the number
of participants, or the short time ...