Author: Marc Bourzutschky
Date: 08:33:16 01/15/03
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On January 15, 2003 at 09:48:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: <<snip>> >>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? It has full DTM information, but stored in a quite different format from Eugene's, and therefore not accessible by his probe code. It should be possible to translate one format to the other, but such a utility does not yet exist. The key benefit of Johan's program is the small footprint. It only requires enough RAM to store the side to move, and as a result only needs about 15MB for 6-man endings (excepting the pathological 5-1, which requires 300MB), regardless whether pawns are present or not. The program is also significantly faster than the publically available version of Eugene's tbgen program (although it seems Eugene has a faster version now). The complete 5-man set takes about 2 3/4 days to build on an AMD2600.
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