Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:51:06 06/07/99
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On June 07, 1999 at 17:16:37, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: [snip] > With a traditional hard disk, probing tablebases in the search will always >decrease the NPS, even in crafty. > The solution is to get a solid-state drive to store the tablebases (: However, even though the NPS goes down, the average ply depth increases when you have a lot of hits, because a probe is cheaper than collecting the same data would be if you ran it through the engine. Hence, the engine is playing better. However, if you get a set of tablebase files, you should get them all. That is, if you get the 3 piece set get all 3 piece tablebase files. Same for 4 & 5 piece.
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