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Subject: Re: A test position for chess programs(importance of tablebases)

Author: Paul

Date: 11:43:05 01/19/01

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On January 19, 2001 at 14:30:57, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 19, 2001 at 14:13:24, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>
>>I do store EGTB scores in the hash tables. They are specially flagged
>>and stored as exact scores. I first probe the hash table, and then EGTBs.
>>This will avoid many disk accesses. Also, I ignore the depth stored
>>in the hash, for EGTB positions, because the information will be valid
>>for any depth.
>>
>>Nevertheless, sometimes I only get about 20% of the normal speed, when
>>very many TB accesses are done.
>
>Give the tablebase files 100 megs of hash and you will see the performance go
>back up.

Hi Dann,

do you mean 100MB of etb cache, or add 100MB to the regular hash table?
Or both ;)

:Paul



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