Author: Harald Faber
Date: 23:43:50 12/21/04
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On December 22, 2004 at 02:07:46, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >On December 22, 2004 at 02:04:10, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>Hopp oder top – Steigern Tablebases die Spielstärke? >>Helmut Conrady untersucht in einem sehr breit angelegten Test die Auswirkungen >>der Tablebases auf die Spielstärke von Schachprogrammen. Die Ergebnisse sind – >>gerade auch für viele Programmierer – äußerst überraschend! >> >>Summary in english after reading article yesterday: after 1000s of games with >>different levels and engines tablebases seems to have always NEGATIVE effect >>on playing strength!! No doubt at all! Uri can easily forget implementing now.. >> >>Jouni > > Hi Jouni > From discussions at CSS a lot of people argue that > Helmut Conrady's conclusion would at least be wrong > for games at slow time controls. Helmut tested > at different blitz time level. Personally, I believe > Helmut is right. > Kurt The argument is easy and logical: The more positions you search, the more likely you reach positions from the TBs which are relevant for the current position. If you search for 3 sec per move it is unlikely that you hit the (right) tablebase positions than when thinking for 1 minute e.g.
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