Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:16:03 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 Figure roughly 2^48 entries in the table. Probably 16 bit entries. So 2^49 bytes which is about 500,000 gigabytes for one file. And an equivalent amount of memory to build it. And several million terrabytes for the promotion class files necessary to build it. Not in our lifetimes.
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