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Subject: Re: table bases

Author: Victor Zakharov

Date: 03:52:41 04/07/01

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On April 06, 2001 at 18:01:33, John Dahlem wrote:

>On April 06, 2001 at 17:25:01, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>Further question:does this 12 Cd set work with chessbase engines, such as fritz6
>>etc?
>
>It should, but I'm not 100% sure.  I think as long as you have table bases they
>will work with any engine that supports them (chessbase engines of course do),
>and it doesn't matter if you get them from Convekta or Gambitsoft or Chessbase.
>By the way, you can download all the tablebases for free at hyatt's site if you
>want to take the time.
>
>john

Tablebases of all companies have the same source
(ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/tb)
and identical. The only difference in choosing the set of endings placed on CD.

Convekta (www.chessassistant.com) also supplies 9 CD set. That is very
reasonable compromise between 4 and 12.

It is not evident that largest set is better for all cases and for all engines.
The larger set - the longer tablebases loading time. It could be 5-20 seconds.
And the same with memory using. (HDD space is not so big problem for modern
systems.)

And my opinion that for engines like Shredder5 and Tiger14 4 CD set is optimal
choice.

Victor



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