Author: B. Clark
Date: 11:57:22 06/11/01
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On June 11, 2001 at 05:33:17, John Hatcher wrote: >On June 11, 2001 at 01:21:13, Leen Ammeraal wrote: > >>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/ > > >Leen, > >I'm no expert, but the advice I've seen posted again and again in this forum is >that it takes LOTS of computer memory and WEEKS (not days - Weeks!!) to generate >all the 5-piece tablebases. Spending $50 and buying the tablebases on CD will >spare your computer and your patience. Just an opinion. > >John Hatcher If you have a fast modem, the easiest and cheapest way to obtain the TB's is to download them from Dr. Hyatt's site. It took me about 18 hours with a cable modem to download all of the 3, 4 and 5 man TB's. I was out of town for a day, and when I returned, the download was complete. To me, this is infinitely preferable to spending $50, or locking up my computer for 2 weeks to generate the TB's. Just my opinion.
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