Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:54:53 01/14/04
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On January 14, 2004 at 16:08:24, David H. McClain wrote: >On January 14, 2004 at 15:07:39, Chris Taylor wrote: > >>Does S8 know how to use the 6 piece egtbs'? I could wait for it to arrive, nah; >>please tell me! I have ordered the dam things and would like to know if I have >>wasted my GBPs. >> >> >>Chris > >Chris, > >Being an amatuer here perhaps I am making an incorrect assumption about this. > >When I use my Shredder 7.04 the heavy hard drive activity appears to indicate it >is accessing EGTBs tablebases when there are six pieces left on the board. I >have assumed all along that this indicates that Shredder 7.04 is using a few of >my 6 piece EGTBs or is at least looking for them. Shredder Classic GUI also >states "6 piece EGTBs found" when changing hash table size for them. > >Hopefully one of our experts on this can either confirm or refute this. If this >is in fact true then I see no reason why S 8 would not do the same. > >DHM That is inconclusive. IE you can take crafty, crank it up with 6 pieces and see the disk light go. You can then type egtb=5 to limit it to only 5 piece tables, and the disk light will _still_ burn because it is easy to remove one piece and get a hit. If you set up a position with 6 pieces only, it should not even search, it should stop with an egtb score and wait for your move.
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