Author: Brian Katz
Date: 16:30:05 03/01/03
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On March 01, 2003 at 08:32:27, Mike Hood wrote: >The Nalimov endgame tablebases can be downloaded for free from Bob's ftp site, >but I suppose it's nice to be able to buy them from Chessbase if you're without >the Internet or have a slow connection. However, I don't see the point in >offering a selection of the "most important" 5-piece tablebases. I think that >the collection should be sold complete or not at all. After all, the most >important endgame to me is usually the one that cropped up in my last club >match, and Chessbase has no way of knowing that. > >Just my opinion..... I purchased the 9 Disk set of Nalimov Tablebases from this very site. There are a few 5 piece endgames missing. The missing 5 piece endgames are ridiculous endgames like KQRN vs K KQQQ vs K and some other endgames with King and 3 pieces vs a King or KRPP vs K. I found that there were 26 endgames missing from the set. However, you can also use the Tablebase Generator to generate the missing endgames. I you have a processor that is fast enough and your RAM is large enough (RAM should be well into the 500 MB range. Nearing 600 MB. When you use the Tablebase Generator, when you click onto SUGGESTION, it will search your Tablebase folder and Hi-lite the missing endgames in it's window. I am presently using an AMD Athlon 2600+ XP processor and I also have 1 gig (1024 MB)of DDR SDRAM. It only took 3-4 days to produce the missing endgames. That was not straight days either. This was over the course of 3-4 days. Usually done while asleep or while at work. It took roughly on an average of 12 hours a day for 4 days. I am not that familiar with a DSL connection for downloading tablebases. Perhaps it is faster to download the missing Tablebases with a DSL connection than to produce them. That I do not know. Pardon my ignorance. I am still in the stone age with a dial up connection. Brian Katz
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