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Subject: Re: And one more question.

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 02:08:29 12/05/03

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On December 04, 2003 at 21:25:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 04, 2003 at 21:18:40, Anson T J wrote:
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>>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.
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>>1. Whats the total size of 2,3,4,5 and 6 men tablebases currently available for
>>download?
>Roughly 500 gigabytes.   :)

What is the size of ALL 4 piece TB's?
What is the size of ALL 5 piece TB's?
What is the size of ALL 6 piece TB's?
What is the size of the available from your site, 6 piece TB's?
What is the size of a single position in a TB?

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>>2. How much Tablebase cache is required to use 6 men tablebases? (Will I need
>>more than 512 MB ram total?)
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>You will need maybe 200 megs for the decompression indices.  64 megs for
>cache will work just fine...
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>A gig is probably a better size, but 512 can work.
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>>3. Which chessbase engines support 6+ men tablebases?

Deep Fritz 8. And the new Shredder and Junior, which will
be available in the future.

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>No idea.  Crafty does for certain, however.
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>>thx in advance.



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