Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:40:37 12/14/02
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On December 13, 2002 at 23:16:25, Mike S. wrote: >On December 13, 2002 at 15:20:54, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>On December 13, 2002 at 14:50:30, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>What is different? >>>A different compression scheme? >>>A different encoding scheme? >>>Why the change? >>>Has the interface changed? >>>What changes will be needed from old code to new code? >>>Have the rules for usage changed? >> >>New access code would shortly be released in Crafty 19.2. (...) > >Does this mean, there will also be a new tablebase generator tool? > >So far, I didn't find the old one on the reorganised FTP. - It was a good >resource for people who have a slow internet connection (modem dial-up). I >recommended sometimes to newcomers, to download that and generate the 4-piece >tbs. on their local machines, so that they didn't have to make long expensive >download sessions. > >It would be a big help to new fans especially, if that (or a new) generator >executeable would be available again, too. > >On this occasion, many thanks for providing all those tablebase data for free, >to you, to Prof. Bob and to everybody who has contributed. > >Regards, >Mike Scheidl the problem is that the generator is going to take far more machine than what you have. First, if you want to do a P table, you have to have _all_ the promotion cases. IE get ready to have a terabyte of space (probably 2-3x this to generate) when you tackle KPPKPP. You have to stop and think a bit to appreciate what you are going to need. Just the memory to handle the generation is non-trivial, not counting the disk space because tables are not built in compressed form.
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