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Subject: Re: Benefit of tablebases seems to be 2 points!?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:09:13 10/13/99

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On October 13, 1999 at 01:10:30, Harald Faber wrote:

>On October 13, 1999 at 01:04:05, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>Yes from latest SSDF list You see that Hiarcs7.32 with tablebases is only
>>2 points over Hiarcs7 without them. Hmm. Not much benefit from 100+ MB packed
>>data...
>>
>>Jouni
>
>Argh!!!
>The question is how much below would Hiarcs7.32 be WITHOUT the tablebases...


Even more important, how would _other_ programs do?  Hiarcs has an apparently
very conservative approach to probing in the search, based on some numbers that
were posted here recently.  It is not surprising that tablebases don't make any
difference given that circumstance.



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