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Subject: A Beginners Tablebase Question... Help needed

Author: Matthew Barnett

Date: 16:44:12 01/03/02


Now that I have a big enough hard drive I want to install the Namilov tablebases
from one of ChessBase CDs.  I have 2 questions...

1) How much disc space is required?  I seem to remember it being either 6 or 9
GB, but the TableBase directory on the Fritz disc is only 131 MB, so what
happens to them once installed on the hard drive? Do they get uncompressed and
written to the hard drive, or do they only exist in an uncompressed form when in
cache, during the time Fritz is operating?  Which is the best method?

2) ChessBase recommends changing the chssbase.ini file to a default cache size
of 4096 KB for the tablebases.  My computer has 512MB of RAM and a 100GB hard
drive - what would be the best value for this setting on my computer?  Can a
value of more than 8MB be set?  (Chessbase say a value between 1 and 8 MBs).

Many thanks for your help

Matthew



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