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Subject: Re: Question for you Endgame Enthusiasts

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:56:58 04/09/04

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On April 09, 2004 at 02:24:36, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On April 09, 2004 at 00:35:43, Les Fernandez wrote:
>
>>Is anyone aware of any study that has been done regarding the "time" thats
>>needed to generate endgame table bases?  Eugene would probably be the best one
>>to consult with since he appears to be the "authority on this subject" but I am
>>interested to hear from anyone.  Certainly it is important that the times are
>>all based on same hardware.  I am interested in studying the times it takes to
>>do each tablebase.  By each tablebase I mean each individual one.
>
>According to my understanding the ChessMaster FEG tablebase files are faster to
>generate and require less memory.
>
>I do not know if they can produce the statistics that you are interested in,
>however.

Yes, they can. The FEG utility can perform a summary of all files generated on
your computer, and this includes the time it took to generate them.

jm



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