Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:07:24 05/23/99
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On May 23, 1999 at 13:42:52, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >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). Actually it should work with either, assuming he used the probe code supplied by Eugene. But I am not certain... Crafty doesn't care... compressed or uncompressed (or a mixture) work fine.
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