Author: Kirill Kryukov
Date: 21:31:47 12/07/05
Hi all, One month passed since we started the 6-men Nalimov EGTB sharing project, so enough time to see where it goes. Overall, I'm happy to say, it's very successful - many people joined and we have now substantial set of 6-men bases online. Some tablebases already got spread to more than 10 people, particularly KRPKRP, KRPPKR and KPPPKR. It means that these tablebases are almost safe now agains disappearing, the goal that we want to achieve for all other bases too. Recently I had to introduce a new type of smiley to the page to mark bases with 10 complete sources. It will be really nice to see more and more bases marked with it soon. There are also some interesting new bases added recently, mostly from Dan Wulff, Vincent Diepeveen, and Richard Pijl. Project page (as always): http://kd.lab.nig.ac.jp/chess/tablebases-online/ Personal report: I am increasing my storage capacity by 1.1 TB this month, and as always I am sharing 24/7 from two machines with combined upload speed of 110 KB/s. I know that many our members have much better connection, and much better storage system too, but every little helps. We are always looking for the tablebases that we don't have online yet, so if you happen to have any, it will be really nice if you join the project, or at least contact any of our members and arrange a file transfer, may be by FTP. Another help we need is publicity, help spreading the word. I'm sure that many chess players (especially corerspondance chess players), analysts, and simply hobbyists and enthusiasts are intersted in 6-men endgame analysis, and will be helped by our project. This project is a real exercise of community spirit - all different people with different ideas, goals, connection, machines, different set of EGTB, join together to create something bigger - an online library where everyone can come and download any 6-men Nalimov tablebase for free. Other than that this project works as a big distributed backup - you don't have to be afraid of a HDD crash anymore - you will simply download the tablebases again. Any comments, questions, or suggestions are welcomed here or via email. Best, Kirill
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