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Subject: Re: Crafty and EGTB Question

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 04:59:43 06/17/04

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On June 17, 2004 at 01:30:54, Ed Trice wrote:

>Hi Mike,
>
>>please post position in FEN format , I will let you know what I get ...
>
>
>It's not really a matter of the results of one single position.
>
>The question is:
>
>Does crafty internally have a "switch" that determines whether or not to probe
>the EGTBs in RAM?
>
>If so, is there a way to "force" it to search?
>
>I have combed over the code and I cannot find anything, and I cannot figure out
>how NONE of the entire 5-piece set of dbs are being encountered.

the answer is it does not always probe them. probing everywhere in search is
highly dangerous. in diep i tend to probe everywhere but it has *big* risks.



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