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Subject: Re: EGT info ...

Author: GuyHaworth

Date: 15:34:55 10/20/04

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>
>I would really really like to see some W/L/D tables from Eugene.  His current
>DTM tables are great, but the 6 man versions are just too big.  No one has 3 TB
>of disk space, except maybe Bob.  What I would like to see is a 5-man DTM and a
>6 man W/L/D.  I suspect that they could compress that into 100GB for the whole
>set, which would be pretty reasonable.
>
>anthony


John Tamplin finished running Marc Bourzutschky's evolution of Eugene Nalimov's
code earlier this year.  He produced all DTZ and DTZ50 EGTs for 6-man Pawnless
endgames.

Filesizes show that DTZ EGTs are just over half the size of DTM EGTs, and would
drop to about 35% when the P-endgame EGTs are done, which will be no time soon.

So I reckon the 1.45TB needed for 3-6-man DTM EGTs could be as low as 0.5TB with
DTZ EGTs.


A further thought is that one could keep W/D/L/'broken' EGTs derived from
DTC/M/Z EGTs - and 're-inflate' them back to DTC EGTs if needed.  This might be
quite quick with the right data-structures.  After all, the major problem of
finding out if a 'potentially lost' position is actually lost would be less of
an issue.

So, knowing what size W/L/D/'broken' EGTs compress to would be interesting - and
the 'broken' positions could be set to whatever was convenient for compression
purposes.

g



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