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Subject: Re: Nalimov Tablebases

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 03:13:32 04/03/05

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On April 03, 2005 at 05:03:38, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On April 02, 2005 at 17:11:45, Robert Rizzo wrote:
>
>>There are currently 2 packages that I know of on the market that come in a DVD
>>format that contain endgame tablebases.  Does anyone know what are the plusses
>>and minuses of the DVD Endgame Turbo 2 (I think this is a ChessBase product) and
>>the recently released Convetka DVDs?  Aside from the fact that the former is
>>about double the price, what is the disk space needed for each, does one have
>>endgames (6 piece) that the other doesn't, are they compatible with ChessBase
>>and the various engines such as Junior, Shredder and Fritz?  Any info and/or
>>experience with either would be helpful thanks.
>
>I was offering 2 DVD set (3,4,5man tbs), a 5 man DVD set (3,4,5,some 6 man tbs),
>and a 10 DVD Dual Layer set (total of 85gb of tablebases, 6 man only)

You say "I was". Why not "I am"...........?
Why you stopped.......?

>The highest price was $15 or $20 plus shipping... I was only charging for the
>price of media and packaging materials.
>
>The prices from Convekta and Chessbase are just insane for packaging up Eugene's
>work...

A question: Does Nalimov have any profit from Chessbase/Convekta sales......?
I guess he has and i believe he should have the much higher percent of the sales
than Chessbase/Convekta.........

>
>Mine are the Nalimov bases that can be downloaded for free at:
>
>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt
>
>Peter



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