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Subject: Re: Nalimov Tablebase Question

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:54:55 05/14/00

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On May 14, 2000 at 01:46:39, Helmut Conrady wrote:

>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


If he is using Eugene's probe code, it takes about 2 seconds.  add
-D T33_INCLUDE to the compiler option and away it goes.

:)



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