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Subject: Re: Kryokov's amazing victory - 6 man EGTB sharing

Author: Kirill Kryukov

Date: 21:20:39 12/20/05

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Thanks for nice words, Vincent! It's of course not just my project, but it owes
to contribution of many chess hobbyists from all over the world. I simply
started a web-page to index the files. The idea was obvious anyway, so anyone
could do that.

Vincent himself is one of the most enthusiastic members in this project. He
already keeps about 600 GB of tablebases on his hard disks (AFAIK), he drove
across the country to copy some files from another member, and he is always
inviting more members to join, and of course shares all his files. He is by far
the most enthusiastic and energetic in this project, I sometimes receive about
20 emails a day from him. :-)

Recently I found that KBPKBP became spread to at least 10 people, so I happily
marked it with "blue smiley". This means that if you start downloading such
tablebase you will probably get it very fast, like KRPKRP, KRPPKR, and other
most popular bases. Hopefully more bases will spread that much before New Year.

It's Christmas time, time to do some endgame analysis! :-) So come on, dump your
anime collection and start downloading the real cool thing - concentrated
knowledge about perfect endgame play in the game of kings.

Best,
Kirill




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