Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Are five piece table bases worth it?

Author: Mike S.

Date: 05:46:51 06/09/03

Go up one level in this thread


On June 09, 2003 at 08:09:02, Mike Hood wrote:

>(...)
>To quantify the improvement... I remember someone posting the results of a
>Crafty vs Crafty tournament in here, with and without tablebases, and he claimed
>there was a 25 Elo point improvement.

http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/messages/49323.htm

>(...) Apart from
>obscure positions where castling is still valid in endgames, I've never seen an
>example where an engine without probing makes a better move than an engine with
>probing.

To examine that, I suggest to run a few matches ("with" vs. "without" and
reversed), starting from this position:

NET10: von Gottschall - Nimzowitsch, Hannover, 1926
[D]3R4/1p6/2b5/2P1k2p/p3p2P/P6r/1P2KB2/8 b - - 0 1

Regards,
M.Scheidl



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.