Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 02:11:53 05/05/04
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On May 04, 2004 at 12:40:09, Tord Romstad wrote: >On May 04, 2004 at 12:15:34, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>On May 04, 2004 at 11:43:17, Tord Romstad wrote: >> >>>On May 04, 2004 at 10:57:34, Tony Werten wrote: >>> >>>>You forgot 1 more: Use tablebases .... >>> >>>No, they are too big. The KQKR tablebases alone consume more than 1 MB. >>>:-( >>> >> >>Almost .0002% of my hard disk space! > >... and more than 20% of the unused space on my Palm. :-) > >But in fact, I prefer not to use TBs even at the PC, for aesthetical >reasons. Using more than 1 MB of disk space just in order to play KQKR >endgames perfectly is really ugly. Of course same could be said for alpha-beta, and searching 20 million positions just to move a rook to an open file. (Ok, 5 million for Gothmog.) Vas > The TB code in itself is also a >problem, because it almost doubles the size of my executable. I can >accept to double the size of my executable if it gives me 200 Elo points >for free, but not if I only get 20 Elo points. The complete 5-piece TBs >almost certainly give me *less* than 20 Elo points, and are therefore >definitely not worth the cost. > >The next version of my engine will probably no longer include tablebase >support. > >Tord
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