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Subject: Re: Question to people who generate 6-men-tablebases

Author: GuyHaworth

Date: 04:33:54 09/08/02

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The practice of generating 6-man EGTs not only generates the EGTs but generates:

- experience in generating EGTs
- awareness of the problem that distribution of the information is not easy

New ideas are coming forward from time to time, and these will be even more
useful for larger EGTs.

e.g.:  If we had a GIMPS- or SETI-like distributed-community approach to
generating EGTs, an HQ distributing the remaining unsolved problems, we would
not be taking years to generate 6-man EGTs.

We are not using parallel computers ... or distributed communities yet.

Nor are we generating DTC or DTZ EGTs (which involve smaller depths and
therefore less space), or getting a better compression in 'real-time versions of
the EGTs' by setting 'broken' values' to 'last seen' values.

This last is admittedly a 'finesse' and assumes that no 'broken' positions are
enquired about - or at least that the access-code checks for 'broken positions'.

g



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