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Subject: done ...

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 21:30:02 03/15/05

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On March 15, 2005 at 23:29:39, Mike Byrne wrote:

>using the SMP version and the best settings, the entire 5 man set could be
>generated  in 72 hours - thanks to Eugene Nalimov - he had done a great service
>to the chess community at large(besides personally helping me in with  advice on
>generating 64 bit Crafty and running tbgen with most efficient options) ...he
>will be in the chess programmers hall of fame for his ground breaking work with
>EGTB's..
>
>a real programmer's programmer , he helps Microsoft develop the compilers that
>the rest of use ...if you haven't tried Studio Visual 2005 beta, my suggestion
>it get the beta now ...free with a  $10 shipping charge, later on they will be
>charging $300+ for the release version...($10 is a great price for hobbyists
>like me who just  like to dabble on the programming side)

Interestingly, the new tbgen does not bother making both white and black
symetrical egtbs kqkq,krkr,kbkb, knkn -- thus the file count is at 286 instead
of the expected 290.



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