Author: Yakov Konoval
Date: 22:50:26 10/18/05
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On October 19, 2005 at 00:59:32, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 19, 2005 at 00:49:58, Yakov Konoval wrote: > >>On October 18, 2005 at 13:10:01, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>Yakov Konoval's EGTB format: >>>Is it described in a paper anywhere? If not, any plans to publish? >>>Are there any plans to make the EGTB files generally available? >>>How do the files compare for size next to Nalimov format? >>>How long does it take to generate 5 man files? >>>What is the size of the total 5 man set? >>>Are the files DTC, DTM, or something else? >> >>1. YK-format is much sipmpler, than Nalimov's, but hasn't been described yet. >>2. EGTs are in DTZ(=DTC for pawnless endings) metric. >>3. The time of generation one 5-man EGT is from 1 to 10 minutes. The special >>version for 5-man EGTs can work 2-3 times faster. > >That is very quick. What is the size of the 5 man set? > Now we have only pawnless EGTs in yk-format, so I don't know the total size of the full 5-man set. For example kbbkn has size 11 MB (WTM) + 12 MB (BTM), kqbkq - 12 MB / 5 MB. >>4. The size of EGT usually is smaller than Nalimov's mainly due DTZ-metric. >>And this size strongly depends of archiver. Now the gzip-library is used for >>compression, but compression level can be much better with using other >>libraries. >>5. There are plans to make EGTs generally available. The main problem is the >>huge size of 7-man EGTs. > >DVD seems a natural medium. > 4 GB is too small for 1 interesting 7-man EGT. Only large HDs/RAID-arrays can be used now for bookkeeping. >How many 6 man files are generated? This is the question for Marc. I think the full set of 6-man pawnless EGTs in yk-format is generated - estimated total time is much less than 1 month for Pentium 3.6 GHz computer. I don't have such computer, and the debugging process was very hard for me. Only thank to Marc's verification test some bugs were found. Yakov
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