Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 09:25:30 08/28/05
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On August 28, 2005 at 09:39:03, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On August 28, 2005 at 09:27:21, Roy Brunjes wrote: > >>It seems about 2 years ago or >>so that there was beginning to develop a community consensus that tablebases >>were essential to strong endgame play by an engine. > >Huh? I don't believe this is true. It has always been said that tablebases are >worth at most 20 ELO or so. I would be surprised if it amounted to 5 elo. Wasn't some of the testing reported finding no significant difference in overall playing strength? The percentage of the games that would practically benefit from the additional knowledge EGTBs would provide is surely miniscule. > >Realistically only a few tables like KRPKR and so will actually win or draw a >game that otherwhise wouldn't. > >I wonder about the impact of 6 man tables. It could be bigger. > >-- >GCP
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