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Subject: Re: Tablebase question/proposal (reasonable subset of 6-man)

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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