Author: Keith Evans
Date: 21:32:16 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 You might consider the option of mailing a harddisk around to trustworthy people. Maybe Robert would be willing to copy files to someone's drive if that person would then take care of all further snailmail distribution? Also it could be made available at CC competitions. Instead of a linux install fest you could have a tablebase install fest. Not that I'm personally interested, but it seems like a potentially workable solution if a really enthusiatic person volunteered. -K
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