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Subject: Re: A Beginners Tablebase Question... Help needed

Author: nabin limbu

Date: 18:58:12 01/03/02

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On January 03, 2002 at 19:44:12, Matthew Barnett wrote:

>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



As far as I can see you can install all the sets of cd rom if you have
excluding some 6men.you can find more topics on tb's by doctor hyatt.
http://www.chesskit.com/aarontay/Winboard/egtb.html



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