Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:19:46 11/13/01
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On November 13, 2001 at 05:16:10, Tony Werten wrote: >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 It is worse than that. The file will have roughly 2^48 _entries_ 8 pieces with 64 squares each. that is 262 terrabytes. Actually 262 trillion entries of probably at least two bytes each, so 512 terrabytes roughly. Pretty big. :)
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