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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:45:25 01/19/01

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On January 19, 2001 at 14:43:05, Paul wrote:

>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 ;)

EGTB Cache.  If you already have a big hash table for the program (64 megs or
better) then a larger one will only add a little bit of performance.  But if you
have a pile of EGTB's to romp through, a big cache for those will help a lot.



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