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Subject: Re: Question about tablebases - Can they be better/smaller?

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 10:09:24 01/28/01

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>Can tablebases be improved upon even more than they already are? Currently there
>are several "types" of tablebases, being the Nalimov, Thompson, and others. Can
>there not be a "best" solution for how to construct them to smaller in size, and
>hold more information?
>
>A new compression method perhaps?
>
>As hard drives get bigger and faster, would it not be more beneficial to make
>tb's smaller, easier to make, so that one day, chess could be solved by
>tablebases alone? Is this even possible?

Hi David,

For an example of how to further decrease the sizes of endgame
databases, please take a look at my following article in the
ICCA Journal:

* E.A. Heinz.
  Knowledgeable encoding and querying of endgame databases.
  In ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2, pages 81-97, June 1999.

An electronic preprint of the article is available on my
WWW pages at http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/.

Cheers,

=Ernst=



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