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Subject: Re: Nalimov Tablebases

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 10:56:06 04/04/05

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On April 04, 2005 at 06:32:14, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>This is continuation of a thread that has become toooooo old........
>
>>On April 03, 2005 at 14:13:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>On April 03, 2005 at 14:13:30, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>>>>On April 03, 2005 at 05:03:38, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>>>I was offering 2 DVD set (3,4,5man tbs), a 5 man DVD set (3,4,5,some 6 man tbs),
>>>>and a 10 DVD Dual Layer set (total of 85gb of tablebases, 6 man only)
>
>>>You say "I was". Why not "I am"...........?
>>>Why you stopped.......?
>
>>>>The main reason was I created a "master" set of each of the offerings. Then I
>>>>took them to a local company to get replicated. The originals tested just fine,
>>>>but the replicants were messed up. Certain bases were corrupt for some reason,
>>>>and the company refused to do anything about it.
>
>>>>If people want the sets, I will create copies for them.
>
>>>
>>>Thanks......!
>>>I wish and when the whole 6 piece endgames will be generated, to be available
>>>from you. When this happens and if you agree we can arrange the whole procedure
>>>and with a logical and not insane (like Chessbase/Convekta as you said and i
>>>agree), profit for you........
>
>
>>Do you realize how many DVD's that will take?  :)
>
>No:-)
> I guessed it will take around 4-5 DVD's. But even 5-15 would not be a big
>problem, i want to believe.........

:))

Add about 250 more (double sided)

Tony

>
> Can you give a rough approximation of how many GB's are the whole 6
>piece.......?
> Is it around and after compression 6 GB (60ยท100 MB (5-piece size)) or it's a
>lot more........?
> Eugene Nalimov once talked about an exact formula giving all these numbers that
>exist in the archives. But it's not very convenient and easy to look into
>them.... Does anyone know what he was talking about........?



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