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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