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Subject: Re: STATIC SCORES (previous results, and news)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:02:11 02/23/04

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On February 23, 2004 at 07:34:47, Andreas Herrmann wrote:

>>I'm glad many people found it useful, so I've decided to compile a much bigger
>>list with a few hundred of positions this time (added to the ones we already
>>have), and I'll post it here before wednedsay.
>>
>
>Hi Jaime,
>
>that sounds good. I would see a bit more positions, where the material is equal
>for both sides. And more endgame positions would be also great, but table base
>positions like EG-2 are not so good, because my engine and i think many others
>have deleted or never implemented such knowledge in there engines, because of tb
>access. But thanks anyway.


It is a mistake.

You do not probe tablebases at every node and even if you do it then better
evaluation for endgames still can save you expensive tablebases access and if
you are sure that it is a draw by evaluation you do not need to look at
tablebases.

Uri



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