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Date: 24 Nov 2005 08:48:42
From: Michael951
Subject: Help with Fritz Tablebases Please!

Hi all,
on the Fritz 8 CD it has the small TBGen.exe application for th
Nabilov 4 & 5 piece endgame tablebases. I clicked on the 'Suggestion
button then the Build button. Am I doing this right? At the curren
pace its going to take at least a few days before the 8 compressed gig
are on my harddrive, or am I doing something totally wrong?
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks.
-Michae

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Michael951




 
Date: 28 Nov 2005 15:42:11
From: George
Subject: Re: Help with Fritz Tablebases Please!

=CE=9F/=CE=97 Michael951 =CE=AD=CE=B3=CF=81=CE=B1=CF=88=CE=B5:
> Michael951 Wrote:
> > Thanks. Do you know of any site where these tables are available for
> > download?
>
>
> Thanks for the info and advice GSV, I just searched and found one of
> the sites, you're right, 6 hours total is much better than 200! Thanks
> again!
>

Use eMule and search for the tablebases with their name.
See here for more details:
http://kd.lab.nig.ac.jp/chess/tablebases-online/

Also you can download 3,4,5 and soon the 6 from here:
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt



 
Date: 24 Nov 2005 15:48:10
From: GSV Three Minds in a Can
Subject: Re: Help with Fritz Tablebases Please!
Bitstring <Michael951.1z05fp@chessbanter.com >, from the wonderful person
Michael951 <Michael951.1z05fp@chessbanter.com > said
>
>Hi all,
>on the Fritz 8 CD it has the small TBGen.exe application for the
>Nabilov 4 & 5 piece endgame tablebases. I clicked on the 'Suggestion'
>button then the Build button. Am I doing this right? At the current
>pace its going to take at least a few days before the 8 compressed gigs
>are on my harddrive, or am I doing something totally wrong?
>Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks.

You're doing it right, but if you have broadband it's generally faster
to download the pre-cooked tablebases from one of the sites which
already has them. Remember what it's doing here is an exhaustive
analysis of =all= the possible positions, to build a tree. That takes a
while. Even on a seriously big computer with oodles of RAM it takes a
while.

The only reason to really generate your own is if you are on a really
slow line, or pay per MB or per second. tbgen is a =much= smaller
download than the tables it generates (especially once you start into
the larger tables). 8 >.

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GSV Three Minds in a Can
Contact recommends the use of Firefox; SC recommends it at gunpoint.


  
Date: 24 Nov 2005 22:39:03
From: Michael951
Subject: Re: Help with Fritz Tablebases Please!

GSV Three Minds in a Can Wrote:
> Bitstring Michael951.1z05fp@chessbanter.com, from the wonderful person
> Michael951 Michael951.1z05fp@chessbanter.com said
>
> Hi all,
> on the Fritz 8 CD it has the small TBGen.exe application for the
> Nabilov 4 & 5 piece endgame tablebases. I clicked on the 'Suggestion'
> button then the Build button. Am I doing this right? At the current
> pace its going to take at least a few days before the 8 compresse
> gigs
> are on my harddrive, or am I doing something totally wrong?
> Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks.
>
> You're doing it right, but if you have broadband it's generally faster
> to download the pre-cooked tablebases from one of the sites which
> already has them. Remember what it's doing here is an exhaustive
> analysis of =all= the possible positions, to build a tree. That take
> a
> while. Even on a seriously big computer with oodles of RAM it takes a
> while.
>
> The only reason to really generate your own is if you are on a really
> slow line, or pay per MB or per second. tbgen is a =much= smaller
> download than the tables it generates (especially once you start into
> the larger tables). 8.
>
> --
> GSV Three Minds in a Can
> Contact recommends the use of Firefox; SC recommends it at gunpoint.

Thanks. Do you know of any site where these tables are available fo
download

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Michael951


   
Date: 25 Nov 2005 04:06:03
From: Michael951
Subject: Re: Help with Fritz Tablebases Please!

Michael951 Wrote:
> Thanks. Do you know of any site where these tables are available fo
> download?


Thanks for the info and advice GSV, I just searched and found one o
the sites, you're right, 6 hours total is much better than 200! Thank
again

--
Michael951