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Tablebases are databases that contain complete, exhaustively calculated moves and variations for a given collection of chess positions. E.g. the Nalimov tablebases contain full solutions for all endgames involving 6 pieces or less.

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Are Nalimov tables still being built?

Certainly there is work on 8-man tablebases. One source of information on this is from the Chess Endgame Study Association here This article describes pawnless ending work. …
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Are there attempts at creating practical endgame tablebases?

It is difficult to define the exact boundary of practical vs. impractical. However, you can define this for yourself. See this project You can decide what you want to generate like: rtbgen KQRv …
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Problem with tablebases

If you only have those files then the engine needs to calculate positions that are not in the files. In your case I expect it is calculating the effects of pawn promotion which would need to understa …
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How do I create endgame tablebases?

I have used syzygy1/tb to create and verify tablebases. Never tried to modify it so not sure how easy that is. …
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