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Subject: Re: Nalimov 9 CD Tablebases

Author: Victor Zakharov

Date: 03:37:10 01/31/02

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On January 30, 2002 at 22:37:19, Jeff Lischer wrote:

>On January 29, 2002 at 06:40:12, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On January 29, 2002 at 04:31:39, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:
>>
>>>Convecta claims to ave them (complete) on 9 CD's. Are there still some missing
>>>or so?
>>>
>>>
>>>http://store.convekta.com/shop_model.asp?gid=121&sView=Catalog
>>>
>>>J.
>>
>>A few piece combinations were indeed removed as they took up space for no good
>>reason. The combinations in question are King + 3 queens against King, King + 2
>>queens + rook against King, etc. They represent no practical value to either the
>>user or the engine and removing them saves from 1-2 Gb of HD space.
>>
>>                                  Albert
>
>I ordered this 9 CD set last spring. All KQxxK and KRxxK endings were missing.
>Those don't worry me too much. The only other missing ending was the KBBKR
>ending, which I think should have been included (I went and downloaded it from
>Bob's site). I told Convekta about the oversight, so maybe now it's being
>included on the CD's.

As I know the problem was fixed immediately after discovering. And KBBKR is
included on CD1. So this is presented as in 4 CD Convekta set, so in 9 CD
Convekta set, starting from summer.



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