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Subject: Re: Nalimov Tablebase Question

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 22:46:39 05/13/00

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On May 13, 2000 at 23:07:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 13, 2000 at 18:40:45, Roger Kyte wrote:
>
>>I have just put the four Nalimov tablebase CD-Rom's on my E:\chessbase\nalimov\
>>
>>
>>My question is:
>>
>>On Dr. Hyatt's ftp site there is a complete set of five and six piece endgame
>>tablebases.  Can I download the full five and six game tablebases from Dr.
>>Hyatt's ftp site and just unzip them into my nalimov directory and they are
>>ready to be used by Namlmov and Fritz 6 ??
>>
>>Is it really this easy or is there a hangup ??
>
>
>You had better have some big drives.  the current files are about 32 gigs
>compressed.  That goes to way over 100 gigs uncompressed.
>
>I don't believe that Fritz uses the 6 piece files.

As far as I know, Crafty is the only program, which can handle the 6-piece-
endgames. Fritz does not. But the 6 man are on Stefan Meyer-Kahlens to-do-list
for Shredder 5.

Helmut



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