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

Author: Guido

Date: 05:25:28 06/27/03

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On June 26, 2003 at 15:33:29, John Merlino 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?
>
>Marc Bourzhutsky (sp?) is currently creating 6-man files in the de Koning format
>used by Chessmaster. When last I was notified of his progress (which was quite
>some time ago), he had well over 30 DVDs of archived data, but had only
>generated about 10% of the files. I'm pretty sure that the estimate of "over one
>terabyte" is still accurate.
>
>Since the de Koning format tends to be about 20-25% smaller than the Nalimov
>format (or at least it was with the 5-man files), you can feel free to make
>assumptions if you like....
>
>jm

Is the 20-25% reduction referred to the normal or to the compressed files?

Does de Koning format contain info on win, loss and draw, or only on win and
loss+draw without distinction between these last two results?

Thanks
Guido



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