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Subject: Re: To NON-believers in EGTB benefits... (some engines benefit greatly..

Author: A. Steen

Date: 00:42:48 11/21/05

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On November 21, 2005 at 03:28:11, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>On November 21, 2005 at 03:07:08, A. Steen wrote:

>>Cacheing is thus only a small benefit, as successor EGTBs (sometimes, when
>>post-promotion as opposed to post-capture, about as large) also have to be
>>stored.
>
>That is "caching", by the way.

Thanks, you lose.  Wolf's Law (Typo-Nazi's "first to mention" lemma).

Your snipping of my refutation of your point tells me all I need to know.

Your "theory" seems to omit the fact that HDDs are (relative to RAM) absolutely
prehistorically and excruciatingly slow devices, and chess-programming with a-b
hasn't progressed to the stage where you can often usefully proceed with results
pending.

>>Can I have some?
>
>I think you've had too much already ;)

No, we were referring to the near-instantaneous HDDs which you seem to
hypothesise about.

So, can I have some?

Best,

A.S.



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