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Subject: Re:Practical Tablebases (much smaller)

Author: Sergei Smith

Date: 03:21:13 11/14/01

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On November 13, 2001 at 15:34:04, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

You've got to be kidding.
A square meter ! Whatever next ?



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