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Subject: Re: Fruit 2 and endgame play

Author: Norm Pollock

Date: 05:21:58 01/12/05

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On January 12, 2005 at 07:43:57, Norm Pollock wrote:

Then there is other matter of wear and tear on
>the disk drives.

Let me clarify this. 5 man egtb starts disk accessing with as many as 14 pieces
still on the board in a blitz game.

When there are only 5 pieces or less, then there is hardly any disk access and
egtbs are clearly better than searching.

But for 6-14 pieces on the board, disk accessing is taking away time
(substantial time in blitz) from searching (and wearing out your disk drive). I
think egtbs are likely a disadvantage to a strong program when there are 6-14
pieces on the board, but are an advantage with 5 (or less) pieces on the board.



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