Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 22:00:19 10/29/99
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On October 30, 1999 at 00:26:52, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On October 28, 1999 at 17:20:26, Alexander Kure wrote: > >>Using Nalimov tablebases was not totally new. Years before there were Ken >>Thompson's Endgame tablebases. I do not know if crafty was the first chess >>programm to access egtbs in his search. > >I don't know who it was, but I know for a fact that it wasn't Crafty. > >bruce Spector (Edwards) accessed tablebases in the search way before Crafty exhisted. HiTech accessed them in the search, in 1987. I don't recall how Ken used them, but in the last Belle he couldn't access them in the search because it was all hardware except for the first 2 plies in software. I assume Hitech used the thompson databases from comments Murray made as we were sitting across the table from each other in a game that ended in a draw. I remember bert getting excited when hitech printed something about "loading kp vs k database" and bert thought we were losing. It was just the first hit deepin the search, and they brought the whole thing into memory before proceeding. So no, I would hardly claim to be first there...
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