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Subject: Re: Finally! Tablebases homepage found:

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:23:11 01/17/02

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On January 17, 2002 at 17:18:24, Albert Silver wrote:

>On January 17, 2002 at 14:21:36, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>But I have a question: if the complete 3-4-5 set requires 11 CD-ROMs of 650 MB
>>apiece, how can it fit on only 9 CDs of 700 MB apiece?
>>
>>Even if the last of the 11 CDs is only 1% full (i.e., 10.01 CDs-worth of 650 MB
>>apiece), that would still be more than 9 CDs of 700 MB.
>>
>>Is this really the full set?
>
>A fair question. No, there are a few that were deliberately removed in order to
>save space as they had absolutely no practical value. Truly. For example:
>
>King + 3 queens vs. King
>King + 3 rooks vs. King
>King + 2 queens + 1 rook vs. King
>
>This reduced the number of files from a maximum of 290 files to 240 files.


I was under the impression that Chess Tiger was weaker using a subset (even a
very common-sense subset) of the 5-man TBs than not using any 5-man TBs at all.
I guess one could download the missing TBs if one knew exactly which ones they
were, just to be on the safe (and complete) side.

Thanks,

  -Roy.



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