Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:18:36 04/10/00
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On April 10, 2000 at 17:22:09, Arndra L. Sharp wrote: >On April 10, 2000 at 15:52:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On April 10, 2000 at 11:20:51, Arndra L. Sharp wrote: >> >>>First of all let me state that I am not a programmer, just someone who enjoys >>>computer chess immensely. I have seen a lot of posts that put down the Endgame >>>Turbo disks because they do not contain all of the TBs, in particular those TBs >>>after the pawn queens. I think it a good idea to reduce the hard drive space >>>required for TBs by pruning those TBs that any good chess program can figure out >>>if its brain was not disabled. It seems the real problem is that those programs >>>that use TBs turn off the permanent brain once the program is in a TB position >>>and then the program gets confused if after a pawn queens and the now simple win >>>(for good chess programs) is not in the TB folder. This is something that the >>>programmers probably did not anticipate originally everyone has seen games where >>>this impacts the result. Now that this has been identified, why can't the >>>programmers tell their programs to follow the TB tree to pawn promotion and >>>reset the permanent brain at that point. Many people have reported that the >>>programs that blunder with missing 5 man TBs play the same ending fine with 3 >>>and 4 man TBs. It just seems that the programs don't know how to think again >>>after they start down a tree and the tree ends before checkmate. A bug fix by >>>the programmers would be more preferable than taking up another 5 gigs of hard >>>drive space. >>> >>>Arndra >> >> >>Crafty does this correctly. But with the price of disk drives, holding all the >>3-4-5 piece files is now trivial... 40 gigs for 250 bucks is typical now. You >>only need 8 gigs for _all_ the 3-4-5 piece files (compressed). > >Does anyone sell all the TBs on CDs? Surely everyone who has them is not >generating them with the program that comes with the 32-bit Chessbase programs. >That would take several weeks and a memory ladened machine; I can't imagine >downloading 8 gig either. Not that I know of. CDs are a poor way to distribute these things as the 8 gig set would take almost 15 CDs... and the 32 gigs we have including 6 piece endings (so far) would take 50 CDs or so, which is beyond reason...
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