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

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 17:51:20 11/03/97

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On November 03, 1997 at 08:22:38, Kai Lübke wrote:

>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...
>
I have noticed that the EGTb has a very high compression ration under
winzip..leads one to believe that the databases do not *have* to be as
large -- comments anyone


>Shep



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