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Subject: Re: Tablebase Sizes?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:25:51 12/04/03

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On December 04, 2003 at 21:18:40, Anson T J wrote:

>I have a few questions about tablebases, I currently have all the 3,4 and 5
>piece ones. I'm thinking if I should get the 6 men ones too.
>
>1. Whats the total size of 2,3,4,5 and 6 men tablebases currently available for
>download?

Roughly 500 gigabytes.   :)

>
>2. How much Tablebase cache is required to use 6 men tablebases? (Will I need
>more than 512 MB ram total?)


You will need maybe 200 megs for the decompression indices.  64 megs for
cache will work just fine...

A gig is probably a better size, but 512 can work.




>
>3. Which chessbase engines support 6+ men tablebases?

No idea.  Crafty does for certain, however.



>
>thx in advance.



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