Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:26:49 12/05/03
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On December 05, 2003 at 12:53:17, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >First, how far along are we (we being Nalimov) in generating the complete set of >6-man TBs? I was under the impression that the whole set is 1TB, so we were >about 1/2 done. Roughly. I don't think the _real_ value will be known until they are finished and compressed... > >I would be really interested in compiling some statistics about the relative >usefulness of some of the tables. There are a lot of 6-man tables that are >completely useless [e.g. KQQQKP] that still take up quite a bit of space. What >I propose is that someone (someone being Bob & Nalimov) runs a program that >simply checks the win rate for side-to-move for each table. We then order all >the tables by "difficulty to win", so the list looks like: > >krpkrp 5GB 5GB 50% >kbqkbq 5GB 10GB 50% >..... >krrknn 2GB 250GB 70% >..... >kqqqkp 3GB 1003GB 99% > >etc. > >This way those of us with money/noise constraints can pick out a reasonable >subset of the 6 man tables. > >anthony That might be reasonable. the .tbs files contain the data and it should not be hard to read them in and summarize each one. (hint hint). :)
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