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Subject: Re: Pawn race tb

Author: Paul Richards

Date: 09:52:09 07/14/99

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On July 14, 1999 at 10:29:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Tablebases are not nearly so hard to compute as they are to store, already.
>Just remember that you need roughly 64^N bytes, where N is the number of
>pieces on the board counting kings.  for N > 5, this is _huge_.

For N=6 this is 64 Gig.  Big, but you can store that on an array with 18 Gig
drives with room to spare for a lot less than the cost of quad-Xeon. :) I
thought the big problem with 6 piece tablebase files is the time it would take
to generate them?



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