Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:23:56 10/21/03
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On October 21, 2003 at 05:35:11, Tina Long wrote: >Thanks for the replies Guys, > >Dann, I need the format that Hiarcs732 (and I believe Fritz7) generate with >TBGEN.exe, for use in Chessbase products. I think they are Nalimov format, but >the Help file and Manual don't say - they just refer to them as Tablebases. > >Peter, I specified Australia believing that would be much simpler and quicker, >not involving international cheques (checks). However, if I don't get any >assistance from within Australia I may well take you up on your offer. > >Henrik, I realise they can be downloaded, but our connection 28kbs!! gives us a >max of 12meg/hour if we're lucky, & cuts out after 4 hrs. Many of the files are >bigger than 48meg, and anyway, I couldn't contemplate downloading 8gig. > >I've been trying to generate them, but one file took 32hrs (pentium4, 2.4ghz, >1gig memory) and some PawnPawn files continually use the hard disk despite a >600meg cache, & promise to take Weeks to complete, completely tying up the >computer in the meantime. > >I was hoping to come across an Aussie who had fast-downloaded them & was willing >to copy them for me. A yellow banknote + providing the CD's is a quite >reasonable reimbursment. I know there must be Aussies out there, & maybe they >just haven't seen my plea yet. A credit card and 30 bucks gets you all 290 3+4+5 man Nalimov tablebase files on DVD: http://www.icdchess.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?page=1/15-712.jpg&item=15-712&cart_id=404568.4333 A lot more convenient than CD. From here: http://www.chessbaseusa.com/T-NOTES/122699.htm we see that: "Also, Junior6 still has the interesting engine parameters of its predecessor, including my favorite feature: a tweak that allows the engine to consider very uncomputerlike sacrifices that would normally be eliminated from its search. It also is able to use the Eugene Nalimov Tablebases (as do Fritz6, Hiarcs7.32 and Nimzo7.32)." So it seems that Hiarcs can read the Nalimov tablebase files.
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