Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:33:01 03/29/01
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On March 29, 2001 at 16:18:14, Paul wrote:
>On March 29, 2001 at 15:08:39, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>Naturally. There are even more ways to filter and reduce significantly the
>>number of TB accesses which are not going to be of any use.
>
>Ok ... I'll bite! What ways? Don't dangle a cookie in front of us and pull the
>cord! :)
>
>Paul
I do not know if other programs do it or not, but Tiger uses a lot of endgame
knowledge in order to avoid useless TB accesses. Because each TB access is very
expensive in term of CPU time.
So those who believe that using TBs can help to remove endgame knowledge from
the program are definitely and deeply wrong. Efficient use of the TBs implies
that your program knows a lot about endgames.
Because of this, implementing TBs in a program is not a 2 days work. It can take
several months to get it just right.
Christophe
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