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Subject: Re: Tablebases - How They Affect Windows

Author: William Penn

Date: 19:31:20 11/03/05

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On November 03, 2005 at 17:21:52, George Speight wrote:

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>I am going to use 3,4 and 5 man tablebases. Not 6! I was told by someone to
>divide it up and put them in 3 different pathes, i.e. Paths 4,5 and 6.  He says
>he does that because when the contents of the file become too large windows
>slows down a bit. Should just the 5 man bases cause this, or should i not worry.
>But if i need to do this, it must mean that where they are located originally i
>should have to split them into 3 folders before I even go into chessbase to
>install a path. What is the simplest way to do this.  Any help I will greatly
>appreciate.  Thanks, George

I did a lot of experimenting with this. I use two folders for the 3-4-5 man
tablebases named tb1 and tb6. tb1 contains 1 GB of the smallest tablebase files.
tb6 contains the remaining 6 GB of tablebase files. I haven't found any instance
where the tb1 folder affects the operating system significantly, so it is always
enabled. I don't have any 6-man tablebases so can't comment about them
knowledgably, but expect they are impractical on a lot of PC systems.



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