But kings are active pieces in the endgame!! So I don't think we should exclude them from the endgame.
Tablebase nomenclature
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Pointless discussion time ;)...
It's completely useless now that tablebases have been around a while to try to change the course of history and inertia, but I've always wondered why they bother to count the kings when referring to a tablebase?
The kings are a given, and refering to a 2-piece tablebase is completely pointless ;)...so really, it seems silly to say we've achieved a 6 or 7 piece tablebase when what has really been accomplished are tablebases that cover the two kings plus 4-5 pieces on the board.
I think it would have been better if the way we referred to tablebases was using an N - 2 nomenclature...