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Subject: Re: Match Junior 6a - Tiger 12e (40 in 2 hr, 20 in 1hr) completed...

Author: Tina Long

Date: 23:08:44 03/26/00

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On March 26, 2000 at 11:45:38, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On March 25, 2000 at 23:13:49, Tina Long wrote:
>
>>On March 25, 2000 at 14:28:13, James Robertson wrote:
>>
>>>On March 25, 2000 at 13:41:28, Roger wrote:
>>>
>>>>Would tablebases for Tiger have changed this result at all?
>>>>
>>>>Roger
>>>
>>>Maybe a quarter of a point.... My experience with tablebases is that if the
>>>program is moderately smart it doesn't benefit tremendously from them.
>>>
>>>James
>>>
>>Ed Schroder said about 6 months ago that Tablebases were worth about 10 points
>>on the SSDF scale.
>>
>>I'm 70% sure he said that! I'm 100% sure that Ed said once that something was
>>worth very little rating points.
>>
>>I'm glad I could add some real detail to this discussion.
>>
>>Tina Long
>
>
>As far as I know, endgames are not Tiger's weak point.
>
>One thing I'm sure about: as far as playing strength is the subject, I have a
>long list of ideas that, in my opinion, will give much more than tablebases.
>
>It does not matter if tablebases are easy to implement or not (they are not,
>unless you want to do it the dirty way, and I won't), I don't see the point in
>working on this before I fix more important things.


Good, I think you should work on whatever gives you the most performance
improvement per working hour.  I also think you should get the main ideas
implimented and tested before Sept. 15 2000.  Test & promote heavily through
October.  Top the December 12 SSDF list by 7 clear points (+-50). And get the
next version out in time to beat Christmas.

And I should know, because today I'm an opinionated bitch on Rum.

Ha, No computer program has EVER resorted to tablebases to Soundly Flog me.

Cheers,
Tina Long
>
>
>
>    Christophe



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