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Subject: Re: SSDF WARNING!

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 23:10:30 02/01/98

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>only if tablebases are on a CD.  for the 3-4 piece files, the slowdown
>is no more than 50% worst case, and the perfect knowledge gained is far
>more valuable, because way out in the tree, after every trade that ends
>in 4 pieces, you know *exactly* whether you win lose or draw.  If you
>try to read from the CD, that is going to slow it *way* down.  And might
>not be worthwhile in the search...

Even from hard disk dynamical makes no sense with Mchess 7 - I am quite
sure!
About TB benefit: I wonder if the probability to meet position where we
1)
find win/draw from TBs , BUT 2) can't win without them is quite small,
may
be about 1/1000 game.



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