Author: blass uri
Date: 03:35:25 12/22/99
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On December 22, 1999 at 06:10:30, Sune Larsson wrote: >On December 22, 1999 at 04:22:52, blass uri wrote: > >>I tried to generate the KR vs KNP tablebases and I cannot do it because my >>computer has only 256 Mbytes in the main memory(no problem of memory in my >>harddisk). >> >>I saw that even 512 Mbytes are not enough >> >>it had no problem to generate tablebases of KQN vs KR after many hours >>and my logic says that I need more main memory for this endgame >>because in KR vs KNP tablebases it is possible to solve 48 different KRP vs KN >>tablebases based on the place of the pawn so it needs only 1/48 of the memory. >> >>It seems that the tablebases generator does not work in a smart way and instead >>of generating 48 different tablebases for the cases that there is a white pawn >>at a7 and ideas like this must generate all the positions at the same time. >> >>I have 2 questions >> >>1)Did nalimov use a machine with more than 512 Mbyes main memory to generate the >>5 men tablebases with pawns? >> >>2)Is it possible to generate the 5 men tablebases without enough main memory but >>only with enough memory in harddisk and the problem is only with the chessbase >>TB move generator? >> >>Uri > > Hello Uri! > Maybe this is a stupid answer, but anyway, I just download the files and put > them in my Nalimov directory... > Sune I know that it is possible to download the files but my question was about generating them. Nalimov had to generate tablebases before somebody could download them. Uri
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