Author: Antonio Dieguez
Date: 22:13:03 02/08/03
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On February 09, 2003 at 00:47:52, Les Fernandez wrote: >On February 09, 2003 at 00:11:01, Antonio Dieguez wrote: > >>On February 08, 2003 at 23:55:29, Les Fernandez wrote: >> >>>On February 08, 2003 at 23:40:14, Antonio Dieguez wrote: >>> >>>>serious thought? :) : I wonder why would it be "much more" quickly, as positions >>>>where the move to play is a capture are few. Also I suposse the first move to >>>>try when generating are captures. Well I don't know the details of the >>>>generation but i bet a minor speed up if any. >>> >>>I am not sure you understand what I am suggesting. If we are currently >>>generating 6 piece egtb's and by just a simple substitution method generate 5 or >>>20 new positions fot the 7 piece egtb then when we are ready to work on the 7 >>>piece egtb sets we will have already generated a bunch of them. For example if >>>we have 1,000,000 positions in the 6 piece egtb sets then we will have generated >>>about 5,000,000 (substitution method) or 20,000,000 (substitution + symmetry) >>>for the 7 piece egtb so that when it comes time to work on the 7 piece egtb we >>>will have already done some of the work. I think I remember someone posting >>>here that each complete set of egtb is 60 x larger then the previous set. >> >>I know what you meant, I was just estimating about something I don't know much. >>Anyway i feel it is unfair to count symmetry, as the original also has it. May >>be am wrong. >>Also I suposse the tb says about the shortest mate right? so how you will know >>if capturing is the shortest mate? the info could help but the positions are not >>ready are far as i can see. > >My thought on this is that if we know, after generating the tb for a particular >position, and f7 (target square) is the move that leads to a mate in 37 ie then >it really does not matter what the target square has on it! It will still be a >mate in 37. hey you are not listening(reading) to me or I am not listening you. But I think I am listening to you. Well, it doesn't matter, tb are boring for me. >The only difference is that in the event the move is not a capture >then we need to add the capture flag to the epd string or vice versa. > >Les
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