Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Tablebase access record?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:54:49 02/06/02

Go up one level in this thread


On February 06, 2002 at 01:22:49, Jouni Uski wrote:

>I have noticed, that at least Crafty and Shredder show TB hits, when there is
>still 14-15 pieces on board! This is quite stunning actually (at tournament
>level, I have 3+4 pieces and some 5 pieces TBs). Have You seen better? 20
>pieces, 25 pieces? probably not 32 pieces :-)

The target of chess is not to access more tablebases.

When I see programs access more tablebases in middle game positions I am not
impressed.
The opposite(I think that they could save time by not searching stupid lines
that cause them to search tablebases)

Uri



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.