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

Author: Robin Smith

Date: 13:08:20 06/09/99

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On June 08, 1999 at 23:17:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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
>
>all of the 3 vs 2 Nalimov files are available at ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/
>
>all of the files available require about 6 gigs compressed (you can leave them
>compressed for crafty, I don't know about hiarcs) and almost 23 gigs if you
>uncompress them...

Downloading 6 gigs of data is a daunting prospect.  Are these available
elsewhere, perhaps on a CD set or DVD?  Also, what are the advantages of the
Nalimov files as compared to the Ken Thompson endings databases?

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

Robin Smith





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