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Subject: Re: The importance of tablebases with programs.. freeware vs commercial

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:12:53 06/07/02

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On June 07, 2002 at 12:18:22, Frank Phillips wrote:

>If you had perfect information, why would you prefer to guess?
>
>The issue would appear to be speed of access rather than the tables themselves.
>Is a 7GB RAM disc too far away?

if we have 7 GB of ram then we will have the 6 men on disk slowing down
access times.

Of course i was very happy when the EGTBs arrived in the endgame.
Now a few years later i see less and less importance of using them.

OF COURSE I USE THEM, for the obvious reason that perfect information
is always better than imperfect information.

But it is hard facts that if i would have had in 1999 (februari) the
tablebases, that i would have won paderborn ipccc1999 tournament.

Chance the EGTBs make the difference between winning a tournament or now
now in 2002 is way less.





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