Author: Melvin S. Schwartz
Date: 17:50:29 06/23/99
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On June 23, 1999 at 02:52:44, Nicholas Cooper wrote: >On June 22, 1999 at 23:41:31, Terry Ripple wrote: > >>It was Posted that you don`t need to install endgame tablebases on your hardrive >>to have access to the 4 and 5 piece tablebases if you leave the CD in the drive >>and it will automatically access them from your CD when a endgame position >>should arise that is on the CD. >> >>My question is how many of the 4 and 5 piece tablebases do you have access to by >>just using the CD when playing a game? Do you get everything? >> >>Plus, information says to add as much Cache as you can afford! I have only 64MB >>of Ram on my system, so what amount of Cache is good, as the default is 2MB. >> >>Thankyou for any information that you may share, >>Best regards, >>Terry > >Terry, > >According to the Chessbase website, all of the four piece endgames and the >following five piece endgames are included on the CD: >KPP-KP, KRP-KR, KBP-KB, KRB-KR, KRN-KR. > >If you want more 5-piece tablebases than this, you'll have to generate them >yourself (which requires LOTS of time and RAM) or download them, from Crafty's >ftp site, for example. However, note that if you choose to do this, all of the >tablebases must be copied onto the hard drive to take advantage of the new ones >and the full 5-piece set takes up about 9 GB(!!?) (from memory) of hard drive >space, even when compressed (Hiracs 7.32 can use these compressed tablebases). >Furthermore, the tablebase PATH must be changed to point to the new location on >the hard drive. For a good explanation and description of all this, I refer you >to Steve Lopez's excellent article "Tablebases in Hiracs 7.32" at: >http://chessbaseusa.com/T-NOTES/062799.htm (there's lots of other interesting >and useful information to be found in the other T-NOTES, too!). > >As for Cache size, I admit my ignorance and defer to someone else who knows >more. Hello Nick, You can find the Cache size in "Tablebase Generator Help". The amount stated there is 8192KB. Mel> >Hope this helps, > >Nick Cooper
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