Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 01:17:34 01/15/04
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On January 14, 2004 at 18:57:50, Mike Hood wrote: >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 > >The disk activity (and the "tb=" info in the engine window) when 6 pieces are on >the board doesn't necessarily mean that Shredder 7 is accessing a 6-piece >tablebase. It might only be accessing 5-piece tablebases in a search line which >results in the capture of one of the pieces. > >As far as I know, Shredder 7 accesses the single part 6-piece tablebases, ie the >tablebases that don't have a digit in the filename. The only programs that I >know that access the multi-part 6-piece tablebases are Hiarcs 9 and Crafty. I >assume that Shredder 8 can be added to this list. Ask me again next week. You can add Fritz 7 and Fritz 8 to that list. Michael
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