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

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 11:54:11 07/26/99

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On July 26, 1999 at 14:33:05, walter irvin wrote:

>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????

	I do not think I will see full eigth men tablebase during this lifetime (maybe
the next one?).
José (:



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