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Subject: tablebases vs. evaluation

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 07:08:22 08/11/03

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On August 11, 2003 at 01:40:11, Harald Faber wrote:

// ...

>This is the same topic as with mating with knight+bishop. Implement or not while
>the tbs solve it.
>As a programmer I wouldn't waste my time implementing already solved and
>available (!) knowledge.

In general it´s not available everywhere, because most engines restrict the
tablebase access in the search tree. E.g. they may not access the tablebase
behind a certain search depth or e.g. in the qsearch. Therefore it makes sense
to implement knowledge even if there are tablebases available.

Greetings,
Steffen.



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