Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:53:57 05/14/00
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On May 14, 2000 at 03:18:11, Roger Kyte wrote: >On May 13, 2000 at 23:07:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >>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. If you want to use them >>with crafty, you had better have lots of memory. It requires over 60 megs >>just for the decompression indices... > >>total is 32 gigs and climbing... > >Okay, but I thought you had said somewhere that they actually work better >compressed. In my case, I cannot use the six piece tablebases. Since I can use >the five man tablebases, if I downloaded the five piece file from your site and >added it to my hard drive, will this be compatible with my software, any idea of >how my extra hard drive would be used by the extra five piece endings ?? > >I believe Nalimov's disks for chessbase are missing some of the five piece >endings !? To store all the 3-4-5 piece files requires about 7.5 gigs. I don't know if the chessbase programs will probe the 4 vs 1 files (crafty now will work with all files in the 3-4-5 classes, + 3 vs 3 in the 6 piece class.
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