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Subject: Re: Question to programmers: incomplete 6-man tablebases

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 05:15:23 12/31/05

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On December 31, 2005 at 07:29:39, Peter Kasinski wrote:

>Does this issue cause problems to your engine?
>
>Presumably it will be a while before all 6-man tablebases are widely available,
>and then there is a storage issue...
>
>For now, is it OK to load (say) krppkr tablebase without all resulting
>tablebases?  Or would you avoid using incomplete tablebases in search and only
>reference them if the position is actually reached on the board?
>
>Your answers are appreciated,

Using them in search should be fine. But you need some fallback mechanism when
your engine is failing to mate because of a missing one.

--
GCP



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