Author: James Robertson
Date: 18:54:00 07/26/99
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On July 26, 1999 at 14:49:33, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba 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. > > It is 5.9Gb, and it is not even full five-men tablebases. > >>So >>I think the size of a one 6 men compressed endgame should fit under 10Gb... >> >>Michel Langeveld > > 1870 files (according to my computations which can be wrong) are required for >full six-men tablebases. If we take them uncompressed, I think we are close to >11Tb. >José. If you finger Crafty on ICC, it says 20GB for all 5-man tablebases. James
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