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Subject: Re: Tablebase files and something sneaky

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 08:23:43 09/24/99

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On September 24, 1999 at 02:48:21, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 24, 1999 at 02:43:55, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On September 24, 1999 at 02:39:34, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>And another thing:
>>>I notice that we have only:
>>>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/kqqkqq.nbw.emd
>>>and
>>>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/krrkrr.nbw.emd
>>>
>>>Is there a plan to create the .nbb files, or is this strictly for the Kasparov
>>>match?
>>
>>Well, the data would be exactly the same, so why would you want to waste the
>>space?  (Both sides have the same material.)
>Does not seem to make any difference.  For some reason (unknown to me) it does
>not seem to be symmetrical.  For example:
>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/kbkb.nbb.emd
>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/kbkb.nbw.emd
>or:
>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/kpkp.nbb.emd
>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/kpkp.nbw.emd
>
>Strangly (to me at least because I don't understand why) they are not always
>even the same size.
>
>
>Same material, but two different files.

In that case, I probably misunderstood the composition of the files.  Sorry! :)

Dave



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