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Subject: Re: Where can I get the complete 6 man Nalimov Tablebases?

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 00:17:52 12/16/02

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On December 15, 2002 at 09:20:14, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 15, 2002 at 01:25:35, Brian Katz wrote:
>
>> Where can I get the complete set of 6 man tablebases? I already have the 9 disk
>>set of Tablebases. However, I have found out thru some on this site that the 9
>>disk set is not fully complete as there should be an 11 or 12 disc set.
>> In any case, I think the 9 disc set will do. I would like to have the set of 6
>>man tablebases though. I also need to know how many gig the 6 man set is.
>> Can the 6 man set be purchased and how much does it cost, or can it only be
>>downloaded from a site?
>> If anyone on this site can give me some information on this it would be greatly
>>appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Brian Katz
>
>At ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB
>
>You will need over 200 gigabytes of disk space.  And you will need at least 1gb
>of ram as the decompression indices at run time are huge.

What is the reason for this ? Did the blocksize increase so much, or the number
of blocks ? Or is the cache so big ?

Can't there be a limited memory version for using the tables at the root ?

Tony




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