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Subject: Re: Thanks Bob

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:48:25 01/15/03

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On January 15, 2003 at 09:15:40, Marc Bourzutschky wrote:

>On January 15, 2003 at 01:48:45, Les Fernandez wrote:
>
>>On January 14, 2003 at 10:38:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On January 14, 2003 at 10:16:53, Les Fernandez wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 14, 2003 at 00:49:34, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On January 13, 2003 at 09:48:24, margolies,marc wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>has any ne here used the 2 dvd set of nalimov table bases whish are published by
>>>>>>computer schach und speil? are they of format in the newest nalimov/hyatt style
>>>>>>for six man tables?
>>>>>> understand that the disks include wilhelm program if this is a clue.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>two dvds is just enough to hold all the 3-4-5 piece files plus a bit of other
>>>>>stuff.  To get all the 6 man files generated so far will take almost 50 DVDs.
>>>>>
>>>>>The format for existing files has not exchanged.  Eugene simply addressed the
>>>>>signed int file offset problem and broke files > 2 gigabytes into two gig
>>>>>chunks.
>>>>
>>>>Hi Bob,
>>>>
>>>>Do you have all tbs files for every egtb that Eugene has generated on your ftp
>>>>site now?  I seem to recall that there was some type of problem of having all of
>>>>them.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>Les
>>>
>>>
>>>Everything he has sent is on my ftp machine.  He just told me he has another 40
>>>gigs done
>>>so it will continue to grow.  :)
>>
>>"Another 40 gigs huhhhh"!!! <S> Does that mean there is a "SLIM" possibility
>>that some portion of those extra 40 gigs could be some of those 35 uninteresting
>>5 piece positions ???? fingers crossed but doubt it!
>>
>>Les
>
>If you are really desparate for those 5-1 endings (and like Eugene I don't see
>the point of generating them) you can use Johan de Koning's FEG program
>(available on www.chessmaster.com) to do it.  For 5-1 endings you'll need about
>300MB of RAM and a few gig disk space.  A typical pawnless ending will take
>about a day, an ending with pawns about 3 days, on a 2 Ghz machine.
>
>-Marc


Does it produce DTM tables that will work with Eugene's probe code?

Or is this the win/lose/draw stuff?



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