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Subject: Re: Questions about Nimzo8 and its proprietary endgame tablebases.

Author: Alexander Kure

Date: 13:52:52 12/22/00

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On December 22, 2000 at 15:21:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>I wanted to say 5 times.  But somehow I convinced myself that it was actually
>3/256, since we normally store 256 unique states per entry, and only need
>3 states for w/l/d.
>
>Your number means we would need about 1.5 gigs of memory to hold all the
>3-4-5 piece w/d/l files.  Not going to happen on my machines.  :)  Not worth
>it.
>
>The error I made was a simple one.  Probably due to the late hour and advanced
>age.  :)
>
>Thanks for watching carefully.  Need to keep me straight when I wander.  :)

Hi Bob,

You do not need to hold *all* of the 5 pieces endgames in RAM, only the most
interesting.
E.G. in London i used 2 pawns vs rook and rook + pawn vs. rook.
This summed up to an additional 200 MB. Not a big deal.

Greetings
Alex



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