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

Author: Dan Ellwein

Date: 05:23:54 03/27/00

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On March 27, 2000 at 02:08:44, Tina Long wrote:

>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.


Tina... may-be a nice, hot cup of tea would do wonders for ya...

English Breakfast... perhaps... :)

PilgrimDan

>
>Cheers,
>Tina Long
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe



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