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Subject: Re: Where to download Nalimov tablebases?

Author: Roger D Davis

Date: 17:34:21 05/23/99

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I read somewhere that Hiarcs 7.32 is supposed to probe the Nalimov tablebases
from the inside search tree, not just at the endpoints.

Roger

On May 23, 1999 at 18:07:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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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