Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 09:58:44 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. > >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 A factor to consider is the speed hit that acessing tablebases causes. When Bob was testing crafty on ICC on his 8 way box I saw it dropping from 15 mln NPS to between 2-5 mln NPS during the endgame of blitz games. I think if the speed hit is really 3-4 times this could be a disadvantage in endgames where TB dosent help much and searchdepth is more critical. Especially if the opponent doesn't use TBs. But maybe I'm wrong. regards Andy
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