Author: Les Fernandez
Date: 08:40:29 01/15/03
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On January 15, 2003 at 11:33:16, Marc Bourzutschky wrote: >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. Hi Marc, Listen when you refer to a different format then Eugenes are you saying that in it exists wtm draw,bwtm win, wtm mate, wtm broken, btm draw, btm win, btm mate, btm broken info? I am just trying to understand it because perhaps I can write a converter to go to the format I need if the info is there. Just a thought Les > >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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