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Subject: Re: Gambit Fruit 1.0 Beta 4b is out now

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:39:19 12/02/05

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On December 02, 2005 at 12:30:17, F. Huber wrote:

>On December 02, 2005 at 12:13:46, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>>But what´s a bit strange: I also don´t get any mate scores but simply an
>>>evaluation about 40..60 !?
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Franz.
>>
>>Bitbases just score win or draw or lost no distance to mate. The only way to
>>disply this in a pv is a very high + score.
>>
>>Joachim
>
>Thanks for the info, Joachim -
>I´ve never delt with bitbases, so I didn´t know this.
>
>As there already exist tablebases since a long time, there must be any
>advantages for those bitbases!?
>I´d guess faster access times or smaller size?
>
>Regards,
>Franz.

Of course faster access times and smaller size.

It is not important to know the exact distance to mate when you are winning
unless you have problems to win won positions but the main advantage of
tablebases is not in winning won positions but in transition to won positions
and programs can use tablebases only at the root and use only bitbases in the
search when they are not in tablebase position.

Uri



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