Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:00:29 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 > >Gordon You need a total of about 7.5 gigs of space, if you used them in compressed format as most everyone is doing (compressed files are actually faster on almost all machines due to reduced I/O bandwidth). Building them is a huge task. Downloading works better. Or buying the 12-CD set (someone is selling this).
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