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Subject: Re: Download of tablebases

Author: William Penn

Date: 21:41:10 08/02/01

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On August 02, 2001 at 10:29:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 02, 2001 at 02:51:16, William Penn wrote:
>
>>I don't understand. Is there a problem in semantics? I downloaded my tablebases
>>with the nbb and nbw extensions from your ftp site. It works fine...
>>WP
>
>
>They are larger.  the .emd files add up to 7 gigs.  the .nbb/.nbw files add up
>to over 20 gigabytes.  In addition, accessing the compressed files is actually
>faster unless you have the very fastest scsi disks around...   then they now
>appear to break even.  And for 1/3 the disk space, why not use compressed?  I
>do and I have fast scsi drives.

I'm sold! But will .emd files work with my ChessBase/Fritz GUI with engines such
as Hiarcs 7.32, Deep Fritz, Junior 7, etc.?
WP



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