Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:55:05 09/06/98
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On September 06, 1998 at 18:38:08, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On September 06, 1998 at 14:29:27, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: > >Thanks for the information. Shredder uses them in the tree ?!? >I forgot... (looks like my brain has some mad-cow-desease-problem... :-)) >or is shredder only using - like all others - when the database position >is on board ?! > > >>But Thompson's endgame databases are not really well-suited for interior-node >>access because their Huffman-encoding may cause *several slow* external file >>seeks to happen before you get to the final database value ... :-( >> >>=Ernst= > >This would explain why many of the other programs use the 4-stone tablebases >instead of ken's databases... >what a pity... Note that I use KR*KR all the time, *=QRBNP, which is a 5 piece set of files that handle KRP vs KR (the most common 5 piece ending I see, happening multiple times per day on ICC... These are probably the most useful of all the databases...
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