Author: David H. McClain
Date: 04:14:53 01/15/04
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>>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. Gentlemen, Thank you for the explanations. I appreciate all your input and have learned again! Allow me to take this one step further and I know this has been discussed before. If this is the case then are 6 EGTBs REALLY worth having? Is it worth having on your hard drive for access? I really have no way of telling but I simply have a few of the common ones along with the 5 EGTBs because "most everyone else" does it. Does the power of the computer directly effect the usefullness of using the larger EGTBs? DHM
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