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Subject: Re: KIller/Moves.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:40:29 11/09/01

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On November 09, 2001 at 02:16:49, Tony Werten wrote:

>On November 08, 2001 at 18:04:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On November 08, 2001 at 14:46:15, Tony Werten wrote:
>>
>>>On November 08, 2001 at 12:01:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 08, 2001 at 07:45:59, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 07, 2001 at 15:51:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On November 07, 2001 at 12:22:05, William Dozier wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Good day to all of you, Question: Is there a killer book for black? Is there a
>>>>>>>book for black, so it can counter all the white moves. When does the table base
>>>>>>>start kicking in; in crafty?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I doubt that there is any "killer book" for black or white, assuming your
>>>>>>opponent does his homework.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>tablebases start getting hit when there are around 16 pieces left on the board,
>>>>>>most of the time.  Others might get different results of course.  I have seen
>>>>>>hits with 20 pieces left...  but not very often.
>>>>>
>>>>>With all extensions turned on i get hits from openings position
>>>>>already after a night of search with big hashtable.
>>>>
>>>>Overnight that is possible.  I interpreted it as "during a real game".  :)
>>>
>>>Depends on where you probe. I probe everywhere and have seen tablebasehits with
>>>30 pieces on the board in 3 minute searches. Useless but funny.
>>>
>>>Tony
>>
>>
>>What happens when you get into 8-10 piece endings?  Does your speed die?  I
>>did that early on and actually lost winnable games, because I slowed down so
>>bad the search depth was not enough to reach won positions.  IE from 100K it
>>would drop to 1-5K...
>
>If I have a 10 ply search I will probe the first 10 ply on harddisk, for the
>rest I use my own tablebaseformat wich stores the 4 and 3 pieces in memory,
>making probing not more expensive than an evaluation.
>
>At the dutch open I set up a testposition with 6 pieces and still got 1Mn/s on a
>AMD 1700+
>
>
>Tony
\
That isn't "probing everywhere".  IE with a 10 ply search, you can extend to
way beyond 20 plies.  Probing out there will hurt.  And if you probe in the
q-search it will hurt even more.

Your limit is the same as I have been using for years...



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