Author: Mark Rawlings
Date: 17:23:54 10/03/03
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On October 03, 2003 at 13:40:59, Les Fernandez wrote: >On October 03, 2003 at 09:45:36, Mark Rawlings wrote: > >>On October 02, 2003 at 04:09:22, Robert Allgeuer wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>>I have run two self-play tests on this subject in the past, please refer to >>>these links: >>> >>>http://www.chess-archive.com/ccc.php?art_id=281455 >>>http://www.chess-archive.com/ccc.php?art_id=307405 >>> >>>The bottom-line of these tests (and at least another one that I am aware of) is >>>that 5 men EGTBs do not give you a statistically measurable increase in playing >>>strength compared to having no EGTBs. >> >>Is this because it slows down the search? The "no increase in strenght" has >>been reported before, but it's still hard for me to believe... >> >>Mark >> >> >>>But for endgame analysis I would still clearly prefer having them than not. >>> >>>Robert > > >My thoughts are it may not be a measurable difference "yet" I suspect that if we >were talking 9 or 10 piece egtb's then we would show the advantage. Not that 9 >or 10 is the transisiton point but that as we have more pieces in a tb then the >more measurable will be the advantage. > >Les It will be interesting to see what happens when we have the full set of 6-man tablebases. Now that 6-man tablebases with pawns are being computed, maybe we'll find out in 2004... Mark
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