Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 08:47:50 07/01/00
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>I guess that we are not going to have in 5-7 years 8 pieces tablebases. > >I guess that we will even not have the complete 7 pieces tablebases in 5-7 >years. > >calculating the 5 piece tablebases can take at least some weeks and maybe more >than a month in the hardare of today(calculating only one 5 piece simple >tablebase with no pawns like KQR vs KR takes few hours on my pentiumIII450 and >there are many tablebases to calculate when most of them takes more time). > >calculating all the 6 piece tablesbases will take more time in the hardware of >2007 without parallel search(I assume that computers are twice faster every 18 >monthes so computers will be less than 30 times faster). > >parallel search can help but I do not believe it will be enough to generate all >the 7 piece tablebases in 2007. > >There is also a problem of memory and I do not believe that there will be enough >memory for the 8 piece tablebases in 2007 > >Uri Uri, You may be correct sir. We have eight to ten piece tablebases in checkers now but there is a big jump in complexity between chess and checkers. Chinook, the world champion checker computer system beats all but the top ten checker players in the world and then it usually draws them. Pretty hard to beat a machine that says "I win in 100 moves" when you both have three pieces left and the position "looks" equal. It is just a matter of a few years before no human will beat the computers at chess. It is sure a bunch of fun getting there. When we get there I am sure that we will have more exciting things to do with our computers. Tim Frohlick
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