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The Thanks acknowledgement section of the CCRL website has a couple of broken links: "Odd Gunnar Malin made very useful adapters Wb2Uci and InBetween." I'm interested in acquiring a copy of the inbetween.exe utility but can't find a current working download link. Can anyone help? Thanks.

I also have the 3-4-5-6 syzygy tablebases available. Please inquire as indicated above. I believe my email problem is fixed now...

I've been using FinalGen (version 1.3) more and more and am getting used to it. It's a regular part of my chess arsenal now. It seems to be stable software, no crashes. I've used it to solve endgames with 9-10 pieces but of course 7-8 piece positions are usually more practical. Sometimes it only tak...

I installed FinalGen v1.1 on a different computer with Windows XP Pro SP3, 2GB RAM, Intel Core2 Duo T9300 @2.5GHz. It installed OK and I was able to generate 52GB 548 MB tablebases for a 7-piece position in 1h25min19s. But I'm still a newbie with FinalGen and have a few questions please......... I u...

Thanks for the heads up. I installed the new 1.1 version of FinalGen on a Windows 7 x64 computer with 4 GB RAM and tested it with a few simple quick positions. It seemed to work fine. That gave me courage to try a 9 piece position, total tablebase size 307GB. I tried first with an external USB 2.0 d...

As an update... I switched to a different anti-virus and FinalGen installed OK, but it still wouldn't run because it requires SSE2. So there's no point to installing it on older pre/non-SSE2 processor computers. [It then uninstalled cleanly this time.] I have another computer available that probably...

FinalGen http://www.mtu-media.com/finalgen/home_ing.php FinalGen is a chess endgame tablebase generator for Windows. There is also a long thread on the Rybka forum about FinalGen: http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforum/topic_show.pl?tid=24565 It discusses, among other things, the flags it raises w...

If you sent me an email inquiry, please send it again. I had a problem with email for awhile. Thanks.

I still have the 6 piece tablebases available and am willing to provide...

I have the complete Nalimov 3-4-5-6-man EGTBs now, as well as 3-4-5 Gaviota, and am willing to provide hard drive copies via snailmail. I also have some spare external 1.5TB USB drives which I can load with the EGTBs, so you don't have to send me a drive to initiate the process. PM me on this board,...

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I believe Usenet would be a much better sharing platform. I believe most ISPs have usage caps now. For example AT&T DSL has monthly caps of 150GB or 250GB, depending on service, and a $10/50GB charge for overage. That makes any method difficult (or expensive), but I'd like to hear more details ...

Thanks very much for responding, but at this point I have an old computer which still uses IDE drives. I'm not setup for SATA drives. The best I can do is an external USB 2.0 drive. Pretty slow, admittedly, but it should work OK for someone who has a spare computer to setup the file transfer between...

Snailmail seems to be the most practical method, by far, to acquire the complete 1.2TB of Nalimov 6-piece EGTBs. I'm just starting to download them myself via the internet, and estimate that it will take me the better part of a year - owing to my slow connection and 150GB/month usage caps by my ISP....

I just wanted to comment re acquiring the 6-piece EGTBs from a newbie's point of view. I recently became interested and tried the different methods available. I tried eMule for the 6-piece pawnless EGTBs, as well as the torrents available for same, and also direct http download with a browser. eMule...

I don't claim to understand it all, but here's a couple of references... http://md5summer.org/ascii http://md5summer.org/devlog.html I was using the older 1.1.0.19 version of md5summer which works fine with the 3-4-5 piece Nalimov EGTBs, because they're all <200MB. But it has problems with some larg...

Thanks very much. I've sent you a PM with some details...

...The only http direct download source I could find is http://tablebase.sesse.net/3+3/ but unfortunately it seems unreliable. I downloaded the first dozen files and three gave checksum errors. I've tried redownloading one of those three times and it still gives a checksum error... I found the sour...

Does anyone (prefferably in US) have 6-men Nalimov tablebases? I would like to send a 1.5 TB USB hard drive and let you copy the 6-piece DBs to it. I would also agree to a reasonable copying charge. You can contact me at tomedowdy@gmail.com. Same offer here as grandad... You can contact me at xccrl...

I've just recently become interested in collecting the 6-man Nalimov EGTBs and decided to begin with the 3+3 pawnless. I have tried a couple of methods of acquiring them, and am still researching it... In my experience ftp is very reliable with a good ftp client (I use WS_FTP95 LE), but unfortunatel...