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I sure hope a plane is taking it over the ocean, or else a pirate will get it.

Many posts ago we were joking about this getting settled by Christmas......

and kb2ct, when I send you the hard drive I'm also going to send you an album I bet you ***DON'T*** have.

Update please? I got a 1.5 TB hard drive, and it is very hungry for chess data. Am anxious to send it to a member here (luckily his name isn't IStealHardDrives), but that depends on the successful outcome of this thread. BTW, when you buy things like Flash Memory, you expect to pay a little bit of a...

Good Day Endgame people, I was just mulling around the crazy idea of putting all the Sixes on DVD's simply as a reliable backup. Yeah, I know... Crazy. But just thinking about it, it would take 267 or so single-sided and single-layer discs (red lasers). But let's just say it was done using good qual...

Hello EGTB guys, I wanted to do a reality check with myself. I'm only going to use the EGTBs to analyse chess games -- my own pathetic ones and GM games as I go through books. Maybe even doing some endgame study and finding out the obviously bad moves. I have the Total Nalimov Tablebases 1 and II th...

If this EGTB ever escapes customs, I would like eventually to get a copy of it on one of those external hard drives which use a USB port to connect to the computer. Just how much slower will the access times be, as compared to an internal hard drive with a SATA hookup?

bump.

Everyone still alive?

It's like the night before christmas....

Sounds perfect to have a US source!

Shaun, When I think of internal hard drives I think of SATA and IDE. What is the differnce? Is one type of drive more popular or "preferred"?

Mark

For those in the US and with a Costo membership, I saw an External USB 1.5 TB hard drive for like $110 US dollars (well, maybe that was $119). I imagine an external would be nice since the "distributer" could just plug it into his USB port and drag the files over... no installing of an int...

Will these tablebases be able to be used with Chess Assistant or Chessbase? I purchased the Nalimov Gold tablebases from the guys that sell CA, and as you might expect the EGTB do indeed work with CA. But what if I got a copy of this 1.2 TB monster? Is this monster in a format that could be used wit...

I'm thinking of trying to get a collection of the 6-man tablebases, and from reading these forums I guess that will take between 1 and 1.5 TB. And it got me thinking about the 7-man tablebases... I'm not into engine-engine competitions, just playing through games and getting engine analysis - so I f...

I would like to get a copy of the disks as well. Should I contact you by email?

Mark S.