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Subject: Re: An idea for saving space in tablebases

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:33:17 10/09/98

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On October 09, 1998 at 08:10:51, blass uri wrote:

>I think it is better to store the number of moves to win in the tablebases only
>if this number is divisible by 2 because otherwise you can compute the number of
>moves by search.
>
>Maybe it is possible practically to store it only if it is divisble by 3 or 4 (I
>do not know what is the speed of reading the tablebases from harddisk)
>
>Uri


This is what is already done...  we only store "distance to mate" which is
"whole moves" and not plies.  IE KBN vs K only stores valuse -31 <= N <= 31
plus a code for "broken" positions that are unreachable (two pieces on the
same square, for example)...



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