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Subject: Re:Practical Tablebases (much smaller)

Author: Sergei Smith

Date: 12:11:17 11/13/01


>Do you think it will ever be possible in the distant future to have tablebases
>with 7 pieces , 8 pieces , ... ?

>Almost certainly.  we are only a few years from a terrabyte disk.  In another
>20 years this will be multiplied by 1000 again.  That will take us thru the
>7's.  The 8's will need another 20 years maybe.  Beyond that, it would be
>impossible to predict...

Will it eventually be possible with such disks that some of the games will run
from the opening book straight into the tablebases without the engine coming
into play ?
In Japan they now do research into a new type of CPU using laser crystal lattice
technology or something like that ?




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