Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: TB cache size recommendations, please!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:23:40 04/10/00

Go up one level in this thread


On April 10, 2000 at 14:45:13, John Coffey wrote:

>Let me get this sraight....
>
>1.  hash is the transposition table.
>2.  hashp is pawn structure caching?
>3.  cache is used for tablebase caching?
>
>How does one cache tablebase stuff?  It is all endgames so I am not sure I see
>the benefit.   I guess that the exact same endgame could arrise in multiple
>continuations.
>
>John Coffey


That's the answer.  Same ending, slightly different piece locations... with both
TB values in the same "block".  Saves a lot of I/O.  And then the results are
also stashed in the hash table to further save time...



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.