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Subject: Re: Importance of a transposition table

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 11:11:51 12/08/02

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On December 08, 2002 at 13:43:16, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 08, 2002 at 13:40:55, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>
>>On December 08, 2002 at 12:58:53, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I think that Crafty or yace are better than every engine without tranposition
>>>table.
>>
>>Interesting comment. I wonder, how you came to this opinion. It may mean, that
>>something in the transposition table implementation of my program goes really
>>wrong.
>I see that there is a misunderstanding and I did not explain myself clearly.
>
>I meant to say that crafty or yace with tranposition table are better than other
>programs without tranposition table.

I see it now. Indeed, I misunderstood your previous message.

I do not know commercial engines well. Is it possible to let them run without
transposition tables? How could one know it? For my engine, it would not be
difficult, to still use a small transposition table, when the user gives "hash
0". But it won't. It would probably not be easy to detect. The quite famous Fine
70 position (and similar positions) may be able to give an answer. In this
position, Yace can find the correct move, and a good PV with very few TT-table
entries (in the order of magnitude of some thousands, which need less space than
other datastructures in the program). Without TTs, the position seems
practically unsolvable:

[D] 8/k7/3p4/p2P1p2/P2P1P2/8/8/K7 w - - bm Kb1; c1 "Only move to win";

Regards,
Dieter





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