Over the past approximately 2 years, Ed Gilbert (the author of KingsRow) had this completely crazy project of building the 10-piece database on a couple of "normal" PCs. Crazy because building endgame databases is in principle something very simple and straightforward - if you have enough RAM. PCs with 32-bit operating systems are limited to about 2GB RAM, which is just fine for the 8-piece database, but very little for the 10-piece database. Ed devised lots of clever schemes to circumvent these limitations; you can read the whole story on his page on building the 10-piece database.
Congratulations, Ed!
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Awesome to see what one person can do in thier own home. I wonder why the big computer companies don't do this sort of work. Or at least sponser an independant to do it. Not only for checkers but chess also. This would give huge bragging rights to thier companies and also help program players performance.
In chess there is much work to be done for the 7 piece endgame database set.
Awesome to see what one person can do in thier own home. I wonder why the big computer companies don't do this sort of work. Not only for checkers but chess also. This would give huge bragging rights to thier companies and also help program players performance.
Any word how far along the 7 piece chess endgame is?
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