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Subject: Re: Question to people who generate 6-men-tablebases

Author: Maurizio De Leo

Date: 17:41:48 09/07/02

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On September 07, 2002 at 18:18:30, Olaf Jenkner wrote:

>You use all computers you can get and let them run months
>to generate a new one. All in all this will take about 3 or 4
>years.
>Now my question:
>Wouldn't it be better to wait 3 years and do NOTHING?
>Then you can use computers which are 4 times as fast and
>compute alltogether in a few month.
>
>I know, that the people eagerly wait for each single endgame.
>And it is very exciting to get every month a new solved endgame.

But they compute it now, so in the future, when they will have 4 times faster
computer and enough memory, they will start computing 7 pieces ones (that are
REALLY interesting, for example KPPRkpr)

Maurizio



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