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

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 05:54:43 10/13/99

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On October 13, 1999 at 08:09:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.

Bob. I just installed Crafty 16.15 (TB version) under Fritz5.32. It's
unbelievable how Crafty can access TB dynamically (in search) without slowing
NPS much.
How is this possible? I remember when I tested same thing with Mchess 7 NPS
go down to about 1knps (it was P90 PC then).

Jouni










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