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Subject: Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 00:39:42 08/29/05

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On August 28, 2005 at 12:58:44, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>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.

Crafty's speed hit is so large because the probing is so aggressive.

You can probe EGTB with almost no speed hit with some tuning.

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GCP

• Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Robert Hyatt 07:05:41 08/29/05
  • Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Gian-Carlo Pascutto 08:55:17 08/29/05
    • Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Robert Hyatt 09:05:33 08/29/05
      • Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs Dann Corbit 11:38:48 08/29/05

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