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Subject: Re: Status of EGTB generation

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:10:45 07/31/03

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On July 31, 2003 at 01:42:58, William Penn wrote:

>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


If someone wants to write a web application that will do this, I will
certainly run it on the ftp machine where all the 3-4-5-6 piece files will
be located.




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