Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:34:04 11/13/01
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On November 13, 2001 at 15:11:17, Sergei Smith wrote: >>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 ? A friend of mine has a patent (#5,958,541) which can conservatively encode a terabit on a square centimeter. All of the data can be read back in parallel at once, using CCD's. A square meter of that stuff could hold some interesting tablebase files, I think.
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