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Subject: Re: No but ...

Author: Marc Bourzutschky

Date: 12:56:30 01/12/03

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On January 12, 2003 at 14:24:24, Rafael Andrist wrote:

>On January 11, 2003 at 14:46:30, Marc Bourzutschky wrote:
>
>>I have some code that might be cobbled together to do the conversion.  However,
>>I agree with Guy that it might be easier to just generate DTC from scratch,
>>especially since the Thompson set is incomplete (particularly missing endings
>>with more than one pawn) and does not have wtm.  I'm also not sure how many
>>people still have the Thompson data.
>
>As it seems not many people are interested in DTC data. Therefore you may be
>right that it is easier to generate DTC from scratch using modified code of
>Nalimovs EGTB generator. On the other hand it would be easier for people who
>still have the Thompson data to just convert it. I think I will do some
>experiments with Thompsons code - if it is so slow that a conversion is not much
>faster than re-generation, I will better use the Nalimov code.
>
>regards
>Rafael B. Andrist

Conversion will definitely be faster than re-generation, especially if you use
the Nalimov code :-)  For Thompson data the main thing you'll have to write is a
function that decodes a whole block at a time, otherwise it will be very slow.
code.c on the Thompson disks only has code to read a single position at a time.

-Marc



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