Author: Chessfun
Date: 07:17:19 04/20/01
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On April 20, 2001 at 10:13:09, Chessfun wrote: >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 I never replied to that? sorry about that, I meant to as I did it immediately after the post. As after was when I tried to download to my win 95 machine or laplink them over. Sarah.
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