Author: Mike S.
Date: 05:46:51 06/09/03
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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
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