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Subject: Re: Crafty and EGTB Question

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:46:01 06/17/04

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On June 16, 2004 at 20:47:42, Ed Trice wrote:

>Hi Dann,
>
>Two things I noticed in your output:
>
>
>>              endgame tablebase-> probes=0  hits=0
>>PFGA: EPD record: 3   ID: J&S42.01
>>              clearing hash tables
>[snip]
>>              endgame tablebase-> probes=1  hits=1
>
>In the first line, I again see no probes and no hit. The second line shows 1
>probe and 1 hit.
>
>Is this the definition of success?
Yes.

>I would expect the probe and hit counts to be
>much, much higher.

Even when solved with a single hit?

> In the checkers world, for example, every probe is a
>guaranteed hit (the databases for a fixed piece count are complete) and the hits
>would be in the millions after a sufficient search time.

In the chess world, every probe is a hit if you have all the tables.  I have all
3,4,5 man tables.



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