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Subject: Re: Nalimov Tablebase Question

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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