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

Author: Angrim

Date: 13:34:08 09/08/02

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On September 08, 2002 at 16:05:12, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On September 08, 2002 at 13:32:31, Olaf Jenkner wrote:
>
>>Distributed generation will not work.
>
>A simple idea, that should work is for TBs with pawns. Say KRPKNN. One could
>divide this into 48 to KRP(a2)KNN until KRP(h7)KNN. The a7-h7 tables are
>independent of each other, and could be generated in parallel (on different
>computers). When those are finished, the tables with the pawns on 6th rank can
>be generated. That second task would in some sense even be easier, because much
>less "conversion tables" are needed. And so on. So, essentially, each single
>task, is very comparable to the task of generating a 5-men table.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter

This is a nice practical idea.  If I were building 6pc tables currently
I might use it.  Something similar could be done for pawnless tables,
allowing each sub-table to be less than 2^32 entries, a quite nice
feature when working on a 32bit machine.

Angrim



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