Author: Chessfun
Date: 07:13:09 04/20/01
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On April 20, 2001 at 09:59:04, Chessfun wrote: >On April 20, 2001 at 09:39:29, Paul wrote: > >>On April 20, 2001 at 09:01:53, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On April 19, 2001 at 23:34:48, Chessfun wrote: >>> >>>>On April 19, 2001 at 21:00:50, Jeff Lischer wrote: >>>> >>>>>On April 19, 2001 at 10:23:47, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>Somebody's confused somewhere. It is a mate in 26 starting with Ne4. IE >>>>>>counting Ne4, white needs exactly 26 moves to force mate. What's with all >>>>>>the other numbers these programs are getting??? >>>>> >>>>>I did some experimenting Tiger and it seems that Tiger rounds down! If the mate >>>>>is in 1 ply (or 0.5 moves) Tiger calls it Mate in 0. Tiger calls mate in 2 plies >>>>>(1.0 moves) Mate in 1. And so on. Since the position above is mate in 51 plies >>>>>(25.5 moves), Tiger calls it Mate in 25. :) >>>>> >>>>>I don't know about the other programs. >>>> >>>>You are correct Christophe has written on this here before. >>>>As for the others programs no idea why they had different #s to mate. >>>>I have all 3,4 and 5 men bases in one directory 7.05 GB. >>>>All programs ran for about one minute. >>>> >>>>Sarah. >>> >>> >>>7.05 sounds wrong. I get this: >>> >>>7411980 >>> >>>and I _know_ I have all the 3-4-5 piece files there... >> >>Hi Bob, >> >>Just made a little dos program that loops through all my (290) etb-files to add >>up the total size; I get: 7580348624, which is exactly what w98 says, and if you >>divide that by 1024^3 you get 7.05 GB ... or ~7,402,684 kB. Strange? >> >>Groetjes, >>Paul > >I have the same as Paul 290 files. >Actually Dr. I downloaded all the 5 men them from your site. Thanks for that. >Paul what was the post? it isn't there now?. Email it?. OK I got it. Actually one thing I forgot when I downloaded was I was downloading more than a single file at a time more like 6 whether that decreased the time who knows. Sarah. Subject: Re: Chess Tiger & Gambit Tiger Nalimov Tablebases Support?? From: Paul E-mail: frisbee@xs4all.nl Message Number: 160031 Date: March 24, 2001 at 09:21:56 In Reply to: Re: Chess Tiger & Gambit Tiger Nalimov Tablebases Support?? Message ID: 160001 Posted by: Chessfun At: chessfun_1999@yahoo.com On: March 24, 2001 at 04:36:34 On March 24, 2001 at 04:36:34, Chessfun wrote: >On March 24, 2001 at 04:24:49, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: > >>>>>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. >> >>Sarah, how did you have such a sustained troughput: your figures suggest you had >>a bandwidth of ~300 KBytes/second for 8 hours continuosly. >>From Australia to US? I work for Teleco and I'm happy to have 30K sustanined til >>US. >> >>Are you sure that the 8 GB are not the figures of the uncompressed version of >>the files? >> >>ciao >>Franz > >Hi Franz, > I was only guessing as to the size of the tablebases. >I'm sure Dr. Hyatt could state exactly what the total size of >all the 5 men bases is. Taking a better look at the size of >my harddrive and what else is on it maybe 6 GB is a better guess. > >I did do one otherthing. I just now starting downloading a 6 man file >as it was the only way I could think of to check the speeds and the >download file speed is 122/kb sec. > >Sarah. Hi ... You can easily see the size of a directory by right-clicking on a folder in windows and choosing properties ... or take the equivalent keyboard route and press "Alt Enter". Mine says all 3+4+5 men tb's total 7.05 GB ... It took me quite some time to download them all at ~55kB/s using ADSL :) Groetjes, Paul
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