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Subject: Re: What kind of tablebases could you have with 11 terabytes of storage?

Author: walter irvin

Date: 11:33:05 07/26/99

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On July 26, 1999 at 14:08:44, Michel Langeveld wrote:

>On July 26, 1999 at 14:05:08, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>
>>On July 26, 1999 at 11:24:58, Paul Richards wrote:
>>
>>>IBM announced a new Enterprise Storage Server that scales up to 11 terabytes.
>>>Just wondering what some idly rich chess fanatic could do with that. :)
>>
>>	I could be wrong, but it seems to me that full uncompressed six-men tablebases
>>would barely fit in 11 terabytes.
>>José.
>
>If I'm not wrong the the size of all 5 men tablebases should represent one 6 men
>tablebase. The size of all commonly used tablebases is about 5Gb compressed. So
>I think the size of a one 6 men compressed endgame should fit under 10Gb...
>
>Michel Langeveld

heck with that i want at least 8 man tablebase ,wonder if it is possible with
current technology to even create let alone store????



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