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Subject: Re: 6 piece tablebase question

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:12:42 03/09/04

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On March 09, 2004 at 00:58:19, Joshua Shriver wrote:

If you have resources to generate EGTBs, it's probably better if you use my
generator to generate there as it might be faster than other generators that
currently can generate 6 men and after compressing the w/d/l egtb's you for sure
can store the 6 men at a normal harddisk instead of needing 3 terabyte.

>About 3 months ago I started a project to create an open source egtb generator.
>Though time and finances have temporarily halted the development.
>
>Though if enough people wanted to gather, might make for a rewarding project.
>Was also pondering over writing it under  a distributed model, where it could be
>run either on a cluster or even in packages which nodes over the internet could
>work on pieces.
>
>Was planning to release it under either GPL or BSD. Leaning toward BSD so
>commercial companies could also use it w/o having problems.
>
>Any ideas or comments are appreciated. Particularly does anyone thing this is
>worth the time?
>
>-js
>
>On March 08, 2004 at 02:37:04, Robin Smith wrote:
>
>>When do people anticipate the full set will be completed?
>>
>>-Robin



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