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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