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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger & Gambit Tiger Nalimov Tablebases Support??

Author: Chessfun

Date: 15:04:48 03/23/01

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On March 23, 2001 at 18:01:43, Wayne Lowrance wrote:

>On March 23, 2001 at 17:56:37, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On March 23, 2001 at 12:43:01, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On March 23, 2001 at 10:48:28, T. Dex wrote:
>>>
>>>>With the new CT 14 & GT 2 supporting the Nalimov Tablebases Endgames my question
>>>>is where do I get these endgames?  Will the Fritz Endgame Turbo work with
>>>>CT14/GT2?
>>>
>>>
>>>You will have several choices.
>>>
>>>The recommended choice is to buy an endgame CD from either:
>>>* ChessAssistant
>>>or
>>>* ChessBase
>>>
>>>Both will allow Tiger to use endgame tablebases. You will just need to install
>>>the endgame CD, no further configuration step is required.
>>>
>>>So if you have the Fritz Endgame Turbo, yes it will work with Tiger. If you have
>>>already installed it, you have nothing to do, Tiger will use the endgames
>>>tablebases (even if you are using Rebel-Tiger from Schröder BV or Tiger in
>>>ChessAssistant 6.0 from Convekta).
>>>
>>>Or you can also download "for free" the endgame tablebases files from the
>>>Internet. Bob has them for download on its sever (don't remember the URL).
>>>However in this case, be prepared to download times of several hours to several
>>>days depending on your connection speed, so in the end the download is not free
>>>at all (depends on your ISP fees).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    Christophe
>>
>>
>>As an idea of time, I downloaded all 5 men tablebases from
>>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/five/ on a cable
>>modem it took about 8 hours.
>>
>>Sarah.
>
>
>Sarah how large was the download ?
>thanks
>Wayne

I'm not certain as I never tracked the size. And all my tablebase
files are in the same directory 3, 4, and 5 men. But I would guess
the 5 men were 8 GB.

Sarah.





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