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Subject: Re: A question about a specific 8 man tablebase

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 02:16:10 11/13/01

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On November 13, 2001 at 03:22:13, derrick gatewood wrote:

>How much time and space would it take to compile the tablebase for an endgame
>where each side had 3 pawns?  would this be possible or it simple to large?  It
>seems like it would be so large since pawns dont have much movement.  Has this
>already been performed so I dont have to waste my time?  The "Little Game" as it
>is called on chess.net is my nemesis and I really want to figure out this game
>and that tablebase would be all I would need to study it in depth.  Thank you..
>as far as time goes,  my system is 1.575 ghz athlon,  with 512 megs of PC2100
>ram

Simple math suggests that the table should have 443,247,013,440 entries
(excluding ep-rights). With 1 byte per position, your memory seems to be less
than a factor 1000 off.

Tony



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