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Subject: Re: How do you copy this position into CM9K?

Author: Chessfun

Date: 13:11:32 09/06/02

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On September 06, 2002 at 15:58:07, John Merlino wrote:

>On September 06, 2002 at 15:40:51, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On September 06, 2002 at 13:31:35, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>On September 06, 2002 at 12:00:28, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>>Thanks John.  What happened to the EGDB generator?
>>>>Jim
>>>
>>>Coming soon. It will hopefully be put up on the website today. But, if not, then
>>>definitely by Tuesday. Unfortunately, those things are a bit beyond my control
>>>-- even if I send them to the website guys, it can take a few days before they
>>>get around to making them available.
>>>
>>>jm
>>
>>John,
>>    On the CD the tablebases comprise 22.2 MB, 180 files. Is this all 3 and 4
>>piece? The compression rate of these files appears at first glance much greater
>>than the *.emd files used by other programs?
>>
>>Sarah.
>
>Those are all of the 3 and 4 piece files. Additionally, on CD 2, there are many
>5 piece files as well, that you can copy directly into the EGDB folder where you
>found the 3 and 4 piece files. These are the most commonly useful 5 piece files,
>and are part of the Complete installation option.
>
>A complete set of 3, 4 and 5 man files in the de Koning format is about 1.6 GB
>smaller than in the Nalimov format.
>
>jm

Agh thanks for that, I will install the rest of the tablebases as I've had this
thing running on the CB server all day.

Sarah.




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