Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 10:24:25 01/30/04
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On January 30, 2004 at 09:45:23, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 30, 2004 at 02:48:52, GuyHaworth wrote: > >> >>Speed only becomes an issue when a specific endgame becomes 'relevant'. >> >>Longer term, it would be good to have more dynamic storage schemes which only >>promote EGTs to hard disc 'Just In Time' before they're needed. >> >>In round figures, I estimate 1.5TBytes for the 3-to-6-man DTM EGTs, but only >>0.6TBytes for the DTZ and EdZ50Z EGTs (from which the DTZ50 EGTs can be >>derived). >> >>In either case, I anticipate some robotic DVD-handler would be useful. >> >>g > > >The problem is, what happens on (say) a KRPP vs KR. Potentially you will need >KR** vs KR for all the promotions. When you reach that position, your search >will simply end, because there's no way you will copy all the KR**KR files from >DVD to the hard disk while a search is in progress. You won't need KR** vs KR until the root position is KRPP vs KR. Since your "searches" will then be only 1 ply, there may well be time.
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