Author: pavel
Date: 19:34:40 03/02/02
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On March 02, 2002 at 20:20:54, Peter Ackermann wrote: >On March 02, 2002 at 17:22:38, pavel wrote: > >>On March 02, 2002 at 17:06:29, James Doby wrote: >> >>I don't remember, but there is a prg that can divided huge files in to chunks so >>that it fits in to several CDs without any problem. Because some of the files >>are deffinately too big to fit in a single cd. > >Thats wrong! The biggest 5-piece-tablebase is K+R+P vs. K+Q which is 126 Mb >large (plus 103Mb to be able to play with both sides). There is one problem you >will have: After a promotion of a pawn there will be a new ending so your >program needs another CD to go on with playing the ending correctly. As the >program is not able to find this new file it will play mistakes because it will >never promote because it will not have the information "distance to mate" for >the new ending. >I would suggest you to invest in a bigger HD or just use the 3+4-men-Tablebases >(all together about 40Mb) which fit easily on a single CD or even on a very >small HD. > >Peter You are right, I was thinking about the 6-men while I was writing. It came to me because I read on another thread sometime ago that in order to burn a 6-men tb in to the CD you have to split it with special purpose software or something. I personally never tried doing it myself. I did 3-4 men but not 5-6. cheers pavs
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