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.
-Michael

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Michael951 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.

--
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 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!

Ο/Η Michael951 Î*γÏ?αψε:
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 he
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt