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Subject: Re: With tablebases play programs stronger!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:51:20 04/24/02

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On April 24, 2002 at 18:37:40, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On April 24, 2002 at 18:18:08, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>
>>I played on the fritzserver a game comp.- comp. and in this position
>>I seen, that the Tablebases here shaw only draw-move for white with Bd7!
>>
>>I'm not sure that all Grandmasters this move woult plays?
>>
>>(german: Ich bin mir nicht sicher dass alle Grossmeister disesen Zug sehen
>>wuerden)
>>
>>[D]8/5k2/2B5/8/6pK/8/8/6r1 w - - 0 0
>>
>>TBs says: Bd7 is only dwaw move Kg5 is a mate in 37 moves :)
>
>Not convincing.  Play 1000 games of some program with tablebase files against
>the same program without.  The tablebase provides perfect accuracy, but slows
>down the search.

It slows down the search only if the implementation has bugs.

Without bugs it should do the search faster because probing the tablebases can
be done only in cases that not probing them means wasting more time.

Uri



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