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Subject: Re: Nalimov tablebases other than included with Hiracs 7.32

Author: Nicholas Cooper

Date: 20:30:23 06/08/99

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On June 08, 1999 at 23:11:39, Nicholas Cooper wrote:

>I notice that Hiracs 7.32 (as distributed by ChessBase) includes all the 3 and 4
>piece endgame tablebases but only the following 5-piece ones:
>KPP-KP, KRP-KR, KBP-KB, KRB-KR, KRN-KR.
>Given that, for example, KQP-KQ, KQ-KRP and KQ-KR are of significant importance
>in practical play, is it possible to download these somewhere and if so, how
>large are they? I have read that the generating program for the compressed
>tablebases can require large amounts of RAM which I do not have (my machine is a
>PII-233MHz with 64MB RAM).
>
>Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Nick Cooper

Furthermore, is it possible to instruct the program to look on the CD for some
of the tablebases and on the hard drive for the others? Or must all the
tablebases be located in one place only- this would be rather costly in terms of
hard drive real estate...

Regards,

Nick Cooper



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