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Subject: Re: Steve Edward's Endgame Tablebase generator is now available for WIN9

Author: Kai Lübke

Date: 05:22:38 11/03/97

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On November 02, 1997 at 16:40:17, Mike Byrne wrote:

>a word of caution... the hardrive space requirements are huge ---- even
>more when you are generating the EGTB ... ---  I don't have a feel for
>the size -- but an 8 gig drive may not be large enough for the 5 man
>EGTB

It won't by far.
The KRxKR tablebases alone take 2,3 GB.
(2x167 MB for the pawnless, 2x538 MB for the classes with pawns)
Dunno how much extra space is needed during the generation.
And there are something like 52 or 57 5-man TB's...

Not to mention the generation time. I haven't yet built a 5-man TB, but
a pawnless 4-man class took around 6 minutes on my P6, and with the
exponential
growth this might be very well over a day per 5-man class on a P5-90.

---
Shep




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