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Subject: Re: How much hard-drive space do I need for endgame tablebases?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 09:14:51 07/18/00

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On July 18, 2000 at 10:36:08, Gordon Rattray wrote:

>Sorry if this has been asked before...
>
>How much hard-drive space do I need if I want to use 5 piece endgame tables?
>
>Is it feasible to construct these using the program supplied on, say, the Junior
>CD (using a PIII 800 with 256Mb RAM roughly)?  Or is it better to download them?
> I've only ever previously constructed the 4 piece tablebases using the CD.
>
>Thanks in advance for any advice

How much disk?  The more the merrier.  If you want to add 6-man tables, just buy
every disk you can get your hands on.

256 megs of ram is not nearly enough.  To download them, find someone with a
fast net tap.  If you have a friend at a local univeristy, they usually have a
backbone net tap on most campuses.  I can download all 3,4,5 man tablebase files
in one night from UAB, and there is no way I could compute them that fast.

You'll have to ask Eugene how large the full 6 man set will be.



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