Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 08:41:15 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.
Yes. I'm working hard on these 7 elo points. :)
This year I hope we will be on time. I'll try to have a version ready to be
released all the time. So if Ed calls me and say: "we want the new engine now",
I can send him immediately the bloody DLL.
>And I should know, because today I'm an opinionated bitch on Rum.
We produce rum here in Guadeloupe (because we produce sugar cane). But I swear
no rum has been involved in the making of the Chess Tiger engine. Well... Almost
no rum.
>Ha, No computer program has EVER resorted to tablebases to Soundly Flog me.
The same for me. Are you ready to fill your hard disk with 1Gb endgame
databases? Or maybe you prefer to fill these 1Gb with the new screen saver from
Microsoft?
Christophe
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