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

Author: John Merlino

Date: 11:43:33 06/27/03

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On June 27, 2003 at 08:25:28, Guido wrote:

>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

The de Koning format is always compressed. There is no uncompressed version.

The de Koning format contains win/not-win only.

jm



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