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Subject: Re: Here's How To Produce Multi-Piece Tablebases

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:08:45 03/09/04

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On March 09, 2004 at 08:45:07, Bob Durrett wrote:

If you've got 3-4GB ram you can generate 6 men for DIEP, no problem.

For Nalimov you might need a bit more.

With DIEP only cpu speed and memory access counts. harddisk speeds, unless very
very slow, are not most interesting.

>
>The solution is thousands of years old.  It's called "devide and conquer."
>
>Simply get a large number of people to create the tablebases.
>
>For example, a seven-piece tablebase can be n mutually-exclusive types of
>seven-piece endgames and then each person generate the tablebase for his/her
>part.
>
>This assumes some coordination.  I hereby nominate Nalimov to do that
>coordination.
>
>Bob D.



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