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Subject: Re: CSTAL2 and Nalimov TBs

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:13:07 03/16/04

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On March 16, 2004 at 11:16:27, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On March 16, 2004 at 11:09:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On March 16, 2004 at 02:16:28, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>
>>>cstal 2 reads uncompressed nalimov.
>>>compressed nalimov was not available when it was designed.
>>
>>
>>Something is wrong.
>
>Yes, your memory.  ;-)
>
>>Compressed was done at the same time so far as I recall...
>
>Not quite.  The first Nalimov tablebases were uncompressed, but the compressed
>versions arrived very soon after.


OK.  I'll take your word for that.  I don't remember the non-compressed
versions, but I do remember uncompressing them at first, until the 6-piece files
hit the street...


>
>CSTal II definitely uses uncompressed Nalimov TBs, and not the older TBs
>by Steven Edwards.
>
>Tord



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