Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 10:19:43 07/27/99
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On July 26, 1999 at 21:54:00, James Robertson wrote: >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 Uncompressed Nalimov tablebases, full four men plus all the 3+2 five men tablebases need 22Gb. Compressed they are a lot smaller. The real Crafty uses them uncompressed, as that way it is faster for it. Probe time is critical, I think. José.
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