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Hi All: The other forum members to support this project will be (I Guess): 1 - Kirill 2 - Ray 3 - Gabor When the ability to Generate 6 Man Tablebases is added to Gaviota, I think the mentioned above forum member will be a lot of help Best Regards, Wassim P.S: I Haven't talked to any one of them abou...

Hi Miguel: I have an idea how to use the amount of memory provided (faster with more, but feasible with with very little). I hope it will work. Generating with less memory is critical because generating 6-pc TBs will have to be a community oriented task. I may not do it at home because I may not hav...

Hi All: First of all thank you very much Miguel: I Have generated All 3+4+5 Gaviota's EndGame Tablebases, checked them with tbcheck, Compressed them with 7zip & Backed them up on a DVD (2 Copies). And Now: 1 - We are waiting for the compression scheme and I hope we are going to apply the compres...

Hi:

I did find what tbcheck do & I'm going to test my Gaviota EGTB with it,

I've completed the generation two days ago.

Best Regrds & Thanks for your Generousity ,

Wassim

Thanks Kirill:

Always the helping hand

Best regards,

Hi All: Any new news regarding Gaviota EGTB progress: 1 - I have been discussing a compression scheme with him. If he decides it is a good idea, we should get about 10:1 compression so the 5 men files will consume 3.8 GB instead. Are we getting any news on that because it's very important. 2 - . Cur...

Hi All:

I beleive that the best free/opensource file verifier is: file verifier++ check it at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fileverifier/

I use it a lot and it is great


Best Regards,

Wassim

Hi Dann:

Thank you very much,

Best Regards,

Wassim

Hi To All:

Windows x64 Nalimov 6 Men Generator is needed, I know that someone do have it so if any do please send it to me

Best Regards,

Hi All: I'm Only Posting here to keep this thread alive, I see this EGT format as a hope (I hope more people are sharing the same view with me), I hope that engine programmers will incorporate this format in thier engines very soon (and share the rsults), and the last thing is that I hope the progra...

Hi Codeman: Comparing the stats is not easy Certainly I'm not going to compare a lot of positions just a little bit in order to know that Retrochess is reliable especially in 5 & 6 men since I have All the 5 men & all pawnless 6 men & 100 GB of the pawned ones. The strange thing about re...

Hi All: Hoffman as I Remember was a command line program & I don't like that, I don't know if anything have changed lately, Retrochess on the other hand seems more promising I plan to test it this weekend, the seqence that I have on my mind involves generating certain related tablebases & do...

I was Able to run it later on xp64 but I want anyone to write about what he had found after testing this one is it capable of generating 7men or what

Wassim

Hi All:

Anyone tested this, I was not able to run it on my computer.

Best Regards,

while Glaurung generates its own

Hi ChessKnight:

Could you tell me where I can find more about what Glaurung generates as end game tablebases.

Best Regards,

How to become an engine tester [free engines only]

Thanks Kirill:
that was fast and fullfilling, by the way what happened to your http site for downloading the Nalimov 6 Men files,

Best Regards,

Hi All: Can Anyone till me about the accurate size in bytes for the following 6 Men sets: 3+3 3+3P 4+2 4+2P I'm downloading & generating them right now so I want to know where am I standing now. Best Regards, EDIT: By The Way A complete table of tablebases file sizes (in Bytes) is highly appreci...

Hi Norm:

Sorry to hear that, & wishing you all the best.

by the way consider hosting some of the 6 men Nalimov Tablebases on your site since it's fully paid till the end of the year.
anyway just a thought

Best regards

Hi all: For backup i use something may be a bit strange, for every tablebase I generate or download I put one copy on a DVD (4.7GB) as it is (emd files) and the other copy will be the nbw or nbb original file before datacomping but after compressing it with 7zip (a great program by the way) & ag...

Dear Josh: The site of olympuschess.com is a dream for me that came true, sice I don't have access to ftp or emule my only way to have the 6 men TBs is to generate them, I've already generated some of the small ones and I'm Planing to have them all in a year or two, the site gave me hope, I've alrea...

Ok I'll make it easier can any one send me the runtbgen.rar that's mentioned else where in this forum, it's available on the PAKMAN ftp server to this mail sassynimrod@yahoo.com

Hi All: This is my first post here, so be patient I really need help in finding a Nalimov 6 men TBs Generator for Windows 32bit, I want to generate my own TableBases, The problem is that I can't access ftp sites or emule or any thing like it, onle direct download links will do or may be Rapidshare, ...