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Subject: Re: Size? Re: Detailed analysis of 6-man frequencies.

Author: Peter Kasinski

Date: 12:38:20 01/10/06

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On January 10, 2006 at 15:36:12, Ernest Bonnem wrote:

>Now who could complete that knowledge by adding up the sizes of the
>corresponding EGTBs?
>What size for instance, in order to cover 50% of the frequency?
>What can be held in a "standard" 300 GB size?
>
>Not forgetting, of course, the eternal question: along with pawn EGTBs, are the
>corresponding "promotion" EGTBs indispensable (else a draw may replace a win)?
>Seems to depend on the program: I know that for ChessTiger you need them,
>apparently with Bob's Crafty you don't...

Big parts of the answer are already available at the excellent new site

http://kd.lab.nig.ac.jp/chess/tablebases-online/

I admit I was tempted but ultimately couldn't bring myself to re-type size data.

PK



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