Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:28:46 01/30/02
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On January 30, 2002 at 19:11:28, Ricardo Gibert wrote: [snip] >>Or (tangentially) alpha-beta files can be created from analyzed chess positions. >> So that you would know "this position is not worse than..." by doing a lookup. >>This idea sounds pretty silly (the alpha-beta files) but it might be worth a >>look in the opening phase or the mid-endgame. > >Some of your commentary looks like it was inserted into the wrong post by >mistake to me. I can't tell if you are agreeing or disagreeing with much of what >I wrote. > >In any case, I would just like to add that the idea of maintaining a database of >middlegame positions is not reasonable, since the astronomically low hit rate >does not justify the even tiny amount of time expended trying to look them up. Exactly. I agree one hundred percent. Which is why i said "opening" or "mid-endgame" instead. By mid-endgame, I mean a board with perhaps 8-10 chessmen on it. >Too many possible chess positions and too little memory relatively speaking. Not >even having 1 position represent an equivalence class of a hundred or so >positions changes this. No arguments there.
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