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Subject: Re: Creating Tablebases like the SETI-project.

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 02:18:26 06/27/03

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On June 26, 2003 at 15:11:04, Les Fernandez wrote:

>On June 26, 2003 at 14:12:32, Peter Stayne wrote:
>
>>Has anybody figured out how big a complete (w/ pawns) set of 6-mans would be.
>>And noone has completely rendered these yet right?
>
>Hi Pete,
>
>Eugene Namilov is currently generating the positions that include pawns and has
>already sent some of them to Bob Hyatts ftp site.  When I last spoke to Bob he
>is waiting for the next bunch of data which Eugenes sends him on a 100 gb hard
>drive.  I am also anxiously waiting for the next set and my best advice is to
>keep looking here in this forum.  Well the total set once generated with
>compression I believe is estimated to be about 1 tb.  Thats positions with and
>without pawns.  For the most part all pawnless positions have been completed for
>6 pieces except the 5-1 set.  Ummm Eugene any change of heart for the 5-1 set
><S>???

Wouldn't most of these be pretty uninteresting? Positions like KQQQQk I can
solve even without a computer. :-)

Or king and four same color bishops?


I guess we could replace most KXXXXk.btm with "Resign". That would compress
well!


Bo Persson
bop2@telia.com






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