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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