Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:51:20 12/05/00
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On December 05, 2000 at 12:34:35, Christopher A. Morgan wrote: >I assume Bob Hyatt's Crafty play on the various chess playing sites >makes use of the Namilov tablebases for 3-6 pieces as posted >on his site. As a note, I don't use the 6-man files. They are big, and with no pawn files (yet) I haven't gotten around to using them. It is certainly doable with good 70+ gig SCSI drives being reasonably priced. > I was wondering what the effect of using >such tablebases is on the overall results of games against >good human players vs not using the tablebases. Similarly >against computers with and without use of the same tablebases - >all other variables maintained. > >Intuitively, it seems use of tablebases should raise program's >ELO by some not insubstantial amount - 75-100 ELO points, more? I think against computers, EGTBs are significant. Against humans, they aren't so significant, since most human games do not make it into the endgame stage very often. > >Anyone know whether Deeper Blue had tablebases of some kind? > yes... It had the Thompson ones for sure. WHich was not complete by any means, but useful anyway. >Thanks. > >Chris
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