Author: Peter Berger
Date: 02:53:39 04/30/01
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On April 29, 2001 at 12:37:18, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >Hi all, > > >I am trying to generate the Nalimov EGTB's on a machine with 256M >RAM. (+270M swap in linux, I can get more swap if I switch to windows) > >If I understand correctly I will not be able to generate them all >with this configuration. But which ones will work and what would >be the optimum settings for generating (i.e. the -m and -c paramters >for tbgen) For example, I tried generating knnkp with -m 300 -c 100 >and it was terribly slow because it had to swap continually...the >tbgen program often was only using 5% cpu. > >I am downloading the ones I suspect I wont be able to generate myself >from Bobs ftp site. However these are compressed, I suspect I will >need to decompress them first before I can use them to generate others? > >Where can I find the compression/decompression program? (sources or >linux binary) > >-- >GCP There is a good webpage explaining about egtbs and the problems involved : http://www.chesskit.com/aarontay/Winboard/egtb.html It's part of Aaron Tay's WinBoard FAQ . For your specific question : very good and complete tips about generating the 5-men tbs were provided by Antonio Senatore in the WinBoard forum: http://www.chesskit.com/aarontay/Winboard/EndgameP.html pete
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