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Subject: Re: KIller/Moves.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:02:15 11/10/01

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On November 10, 2001 at 11:24:52, Frank Phillips wrote:

>On November 10, 2001 at 10:17:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>
>>You can do like the Nimzo guys did.  Just set up 4 loops (for 4 piece
>>endings) and use each subscript to stick a piece on that square.  Probe the
>>EGTB and if you get a score >0 store "mate", =0, store "draw" and <0 store
>>"mated".  Only probe these beyond the first N plies of the search so that
>>you get real mate scores early, just win/lose/draw deep in the search.  If
>>you do this for _all_ 4 piece files, you are going to end up with 40-50 megs
>>of stuff.  To shrink this they didn't do all tables...
>
>
>Thanks: worth a try.  40-50MB RAM is certainly tolerable now.
>
>Frank

Actually it may be bigger.  200mb is the size of the compressed tables.  The
real tables are about 600-700M.  Which means you might need 150-200M for the
win/lose/draw stuff.

Unless you store the w/l/d stuff compressed as well....



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