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Subject: Re: What is the public's opinion about the result of a match between DB and

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:24:59 04/24/01

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On April 24, 2001 at 13:09:37, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On April 24, 2001 at 09:57:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>
>>And if you probe in the q-search you will get killed tactically when there
>>are only 6-10 pieces on the board.  You will lose _several_ plies.  I know.
>>I have been there.
>>
>
>If somehow the tablebases are stored in memory (as opposed to the hard disk),
>would it make sense to probe them in the Q-search too?
>José.


Yes it would.  But the 3-4-5 piece files at present would need 7.5 gigs of
memory.  If you convert them to win/lose/draw, they would need close to 2 gigs
of memory.  That is probably not practical unless you run on a big Cray or
something similar...



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