Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 21:57:01 07/31/01
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On July 31, 2001 at 23:24:13, Pham Minh Tri wrote: >I know that we could use endgame tables or endgame functions for end game >period. IMO, codes of EG function are much easier to develop, smaller and >quicker than tables. However, I see that almost all strong programs use EGTBs, >not those functions. Could someone explain to me why or advantages/disadvantages >of EGTB vs EG functions? >Many thanks in advance. >Pham Tables work all the time, and functions need to be tested on a huge number of cases. If you can write a function that will do it, you'd want to do this, because you save the table access. The problem is that it would be ridiculously hard to write a function that will do the work of one of the larger tables, while the smaller tables could reside in memory. bruce
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