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Subject: Re: Status of EGTB generation

Author: William Penn

Date: 22:42:58 07/30/03

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On July 30, 2003 at 19:15:50, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On July 30, 2003 at 17:03:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On July 30, 2003 at 13:37:23, Les Fernandez wrote:
>>
>>>What is the current status of the 6 piece egtb's with pawns?  It has been a long
>>>time since the last set of non pawn positions were generated and I would have
>>>thought by now that the next 100 gb's of data would have been completed. Perhaps
>>>is the work on stand by or etc??
>>>
>>>Thanks Les
>>
>>
>>Eugene told me a couple of weeks back that he had almost filled the 200 gig
>>disk we use to transfer the files to my ftp machine...
>>
>>That's all I know at the moment.  I'd assume 200 gigs will be available pretty
>>soon.
>
>In a month or so.
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene

Downloading the 6-man tablebase data is impractical for most people at this
time, and perhaps for quite awhile into the future. More practical would be an
online site where a solution could be accessed by entering a FEN position.
What's the chances that something like that will be set up? (It's already
available for 3-4-5 men tablebases.)
WP




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