Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 05:17:01 12/06/03
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On December 05, 2003 at 21:26:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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). >:) I thought I was going to have to run through the entire TB. Your site seems to only have tbs files for the 5 man set though. anthony
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