Author: Henk Bossinade
Date: 13:41:05 10/19/04
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On October 19, 2004 at 14:26:18, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On October 19, 2004 at 13:29:47, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>I would really really like to see some W/L/D tables from Eugene. His current >>DTM tables are great, but the 6 man versions are just too big. No one has 3 TB >>of disk space, except maybe Bob. What I would like to see is a 5-man DTM and a >>6 man W/L/D. I suspect that they could compress that into 100GB for the whole >>set, which would be pretty reasonable. > >I would fear, that WDL is not enough to win some difficult positions. Perhaps >even a large part of the ones that an engine cannot win without support of TBs. >Think for example of those KNNKP positions (to give even a 5-men example - I >suspect more such cases in 6-men), where 45 moves of shuffling is needed. WDL >would say won for many positions, but the engine would have a hard time to make >progress. In some KQPKQ positions the same problem, even in KQKR. In the later >WDL tables will basically say won for most positions, but without some more or >less specific endgame knowledge, an engine will not be able to win it. If it has >that knowledge, it won't need the TBs at all ... It's a trivial matter, so they should change the rules. > >Of course, I think that WDL tables are useful, too. > >Regards, >Dieter
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