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Subject: Re: Where to download Nalimov tablebases?

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 10:42:52 05/23/99

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On May 23, 1999 at 13:35:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 23, 1999 at 13:21:01, CLiebert wrote:
>
>>On May 23, 1999 at 11:16:00, Mihnea Voloaca wrote:
>>
>>>Just wanted to know where I can download these tablebases ...
>>>Are there any plans to put them all on a CD?
>>>
>>>On a related topic- how do you use them in Fritz 5.32, with the Crafty engine?
>>>
>>>TIA
>>
>>Save for your time and money for downloading.
>>With hiarcs7.32 you could create the tablebases
>>on your own (all 4 p., a lot 5 p.)
>>
>>Regards
>>Christian
>
>
>What format?  With the Edwards tabebase generator, you are talking a year to
>generate them all.  With Eugene's you are talking months and you need a lot
>of memory (512mb).
>
>All are available on ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB, but you need about 6 gigs
>of disk space to hold them all...  And right now I don't know of any commercial
>program that will use them other than CSTal 2.

	And CSTal 2 only reads uncompressed tablebases, for what I have read, which are
much bigger (but I do not know for which ones does CST probe).



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