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Subject: Re: CM9000 Tablebase question

Author: John Merlino

Date: 08:59:06 09/07/02

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On September 07, 2002 at 08:10:49, William Penn wrote:

>On September 07, 2002 at 03:46:16, Stuzzi Kadent wrote:
>
>>On September 07, 2002 at 01:21:18, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>On September 06, 2002 at 23:04:55, Rick Terry wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi John Merlino
>>>>
>>>>  Since I downloaded the complete Set of five piece tablebases is there a way I
>>>>can allow cm to use these?
>>>
>>>Assuming that you downloaded the Nalimov tablebases, then, no, you cannot use
>>>them internally in Chessmaster 9000. CM9000 uses the de Koning tablebase format.
>>>However, any Winboard engines that you import into CM that support the Nalimov
>>>tablebases can still use them, as long as you set them up properly.
>>>
>>>jm
>>
>>Yes but he can build them, can't he? How many days would that take? I doubt that
>>Ubisoft would let people download 5Gb of them...
>
>Most people don't have a big enough or fast enough computer to generate all of
>the 3-4-5 tablebases. And in most cases I suspect you're talking about weeks of
>runtime, not days. So the only practical way is to download them or buy them on
>CDs. But I'm unfamiliar with the CM tablebases which are not the same as
>Nalimov, so I guess that could be different (but I doubt it).
>WP

On a typical machine (i.e. something around 1.5GHz) it should take approximately
5 days to build all of the 3, 4 and 5 piece files.

jm



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