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Subject: Re: which 6 man tablebases are the most important?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 15:53:26 04/02/04

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On April 02, 2004 at 17:52:29, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On April 02, 2004 at 17:38:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>You are wrong.
>>
>>Not everybody has the space for 1.6TB of nalimov EGTBs (assuming the 33p which
>>is 65 egtb's or so in nalimov format fit within 1TB together with the remaning
>>42p).
>>
>>If that in diep format is like 10GB, odds are more positive.
>
>It's still 10GB on top of the Nalimov which you need anyway to feed to your
>fritzes.
>
>But 10 GB for 6 man does sound cool, too bad it isn't public :(
>
>>Further which user knows nalimov?
>>
>>A few chessfreaks sure. Not the average user.
>
>The average user doesn't know about endgame tables, so we must be talking
>strictly "hardcore" here :)
>
>>They basically know, if they know anything the chessmaster format at the moment
>>:)
>
>I think Chessbase and Fritz is the most widely known combination of software, at
>least here in Denmark among club players.

How many copies did fritz sell?

Chessmaster like 6 million or so.

Forget it. Chessmaster is number 1.

Then somewhere in a dark gray room at playchess you'll find a few chessbase
fans.

>Everybody seems to know about Fritz, but they have never heard of Shredder and
>they think Chessmaster is a toy thing for kids.
>Some of them have heard of Junior though.
>It's a bit sad really, they blindly buy fritz when they need an analysis tool
>because that is what all the others use.

Wait until you see chessmaster users :)

>You won't believe how many times I've explain they should start out with the
>strong winboard engines which they can download _for free_.
>-S.

No one gets that to work except a few dudes.

Like 99.999% of the population will not get winboard engines to work even if you
make a video how to do it.







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