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Subject: Re: Generating EGTB's

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 04:34:39 04/30/01

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On April 30, 2001 at 05:53:39, Peter Berger wrote:

>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

I already saw those pages too and they weren't too much of a help either.

I'm more specifically looking for

a) info about what would be optimal -m and -c settings...some of the info
there looks quite weird, especially since he seems to mention using -m 512
for _all_ five men tablebases, whereas Nalimov's own documentation mentions
much higher settings needed for the five men with pawns. I also doubt a
tablebase a day is attainable given how slow knnkp built here (my machine is
twice as fast as his...) I do not think the author actually built all table-
bases, just the ones without pawns.

b) A Linux binary or sources of datacomp. The links all point to a Windows
exe, which isn't much of a help to me...And given the size of the files I'd
prefer not having to transfer them to a windows box.

--
GCP



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