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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.

• Re: Fruit 2 and endgame play Uri Blass 08:15:22 01/12/05
  • Re: Fruit 2 and endgame play Dann Corbit 10:52:16 01/12/05
    • Re: Fruit 2 and endgame play Dieter Buerssner 07:20:58 01/13/05
      • Re: Fruit 2 and endgame play Dann Corbit 11:18:08 01/13/05
    • Re: Fruit 2 and endgame play chandler yergin 01:00:22 01/13/05
    • Re: Fruit 2 and endgame play Norm Pollock 11:55:12 01/12/05
      • Re: Fruit 2 and endgame play Dann Corbit 13:02:47 01/12/05
• Re: Fruit 2 and endgame play James T. Walker 08:02:35 01/12/05

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