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Subject: Re: Endgame Tablebases

Author: Leen Ammeraal

Date: 22:21:13 06/10/01

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On June 10, 2001 at 18:53:56, James T. Walker wrote:

>On June 10, 2001 at 18:35:05, john rice wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>I currently have the Nalimov "Fritz Endgame Turbo" Tablebases installed on my
>>computer. I would like to have all of the 5 man tablebases available. According
>>to the information provided by the Nalimov CD's it only has some/most of the 5
>>man tablebases. What would be the easiest way to obtain all of the 5 man
>>tablebases? Would it be easier to delete the parital 5 man bases I have now and
>>then download all 5 man bases at once or just download the missing 5 man bases?
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Jr
>
>Hello John,
>The "easiest" way is to buy them all on CD but not the "cheapest".  If you don't
>want to buy them the best bet is to download the ones you don't have.  It's very
>time consuming if you are using a 56K modem.  If you are on a cable modem or
>something fast then it's not so bad.  I would skip the 4 vs 1 tablebases if I
>were you.  I don't see a need for them.
>Jim

There is another way: generating them yourself, using the Nalimov's
program tbgen.exe, after reading the file readme.txt. Then you
should compress them, using datacomp.exe.
I did this myself for 3- and 4-man tables, and I am about to
do this for 5-man tables (unless some of the readers of this
forum tells me otherwise).
If you cannot find the program tbgen.exe etc. I can send it
to you by e-mail, if you like.
Leen Ammeraal
http://home.wxs.nl/~ammeraal/





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