Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 10:28:53 06/07/02
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On June 07, 2002 at 13:12:53, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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. I may be misunderstanding your point, but you seem to be saying that EGTBs no longer give an advantage because everyone is using them ... unless they are not (as in ipccc 1999) when they are an advantage. Which would seem to make EGTB useful. Of course, I agree with your point about 6 man and speed of access. It would be interesting to speculate on the speed of access disadvantage versus EGTB size. Presumably as the number of men increase so does the room for error. I guess I also had humans in mind as the opponents rather than silicon.
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