Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 08:27:39 06/17/03
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On June 17, 2003 at 10:57:13, James T. Walker wrote: >A couple of years ago I ran Crafty with tablebases vs Crafty without tablebases >to see if the tablebases helped any. It was only 200 games and the Crafty with >tablebases came out ahead by a slim margin indicating that tablebases might be >worth 10-20 Elo points. This time I used Fritz 8 w/wo tablebases and after 166 >games Fritz with tablebases is about 10 Elo points ahead (85.5-80.5). Still >probably not enough games for a definitive answer but another indication that >tablebases have a very minimal effect on strength if the program has decent >endgame stuff to begin with. All games were on 2 XP2400+ machines using auto232 >and ALL 3/4/5 men tablebases. >Call me stubborn but I still prefer tablebases over no tablebases. >Jim Little Goliath is probably one of the best that _doesn't_ use tablebases. It seems to have enough end game knowledge to get by. Chess Tiger is another that comes to mind. For the most part I only use 3 and 4 man tbs. Sometimes I will use the entire onslaught of 5 and 6 man as well in computer games.
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