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Subject: Re: Is having _all_ tablebases better than having just _most_ of them?

Author: James Swafford

Date: 12:37:23 01/22/01

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On January 22, 2001 at 12:52:04, Peter Kasinski wrote:

>
>I am trying to understand the impact of _not_ having some of the tablebases on
>programs like Crafty or Deep Fritz.  Loading K+Q+Q+R vs K on my hard disk seems
>almost frivolous. Would it weaken the program if some of these _clearly always
>won_ cases were not present?

No, provided the program also sees the case as _clearly always won_, and
can figure out how to win it.  One gotchya: don't leave out KxK
where x is N,Q,B,R if you have KPK.  There is a hierchy of sorts,
and holes will cause strange problems.

--
James


>
>thanks,
>PK



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