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Subject: Re: A notion about EGTB probes

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:38:15 04/19/04

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On April 17, 2004 at 12:15:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 17, 2004 at 01:44:23, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On April 16, 2004 at 22:37:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On April 16, 2004 at 16:40:49, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>Why not probe memory-resident bitbase EGTB files for every non-pv node and
>>>>Nalimov (or other advanced EGTB) probes for every pv node?
>>>
>>>How do you know which is which, before the fact???
>>
>>The node I search first will be the pv node 90+% of the time.
>
>
>If you go to depth=15,there are exactly _fifteen_ of those nodes.  What about
>the other one billion???

They get a bitbase lookup instead, that is memory resident.

If the bitbase lookup shows a mate score and my current pv node is not a mate,
then the bitbase lookup will cause a fail high and the new pv node will be
searched.



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