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Subject: Re: 01/28/00 12:43PM 2,014,826,249 krbknn.nbw.emd ---- Size?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:45:32 02/28/00

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On February 28, 2000 at 03:00:24, Gregor Overney wrote:

>When can we get those tablebases on DVD? Even using my fast link to Bob's
>computer system (and assuming this server is not currently "serving" other
>customers) KRBKNN would take me one hour. And that's just KRBKNN.
>
>How large is KQQKQP? How about KPPKPP? Actually for KPPKPP, I would pay real
>$'s.
>
>Is it correct to assume that all those tablebases on /pub/hyatt/TB/six/ at
>ftp.cis.uab.edu are self-contained and do not require other tablebases to
>function?
>
>Gregor


First, you can forget kppkpp for a long while.  The file will be huge and there
are a _bunch_ of other 6-piece files that have to be completed first.

The tablebases are self-contained, but you have to have promotion cases to play
correctly, so if you have krpkr, you can't stop there.   You need kqrkr and so
forth to handle the eventual pawn promotion.  You also need the smaller files
as well to handle captures correctly.



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