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Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 9:09 am
by Norbert Raimund Leisner
Hello,
the ChessOK a.k.a. Convekta support told me:
Lomonosov tablebases - it is 7 pieces engame tablebases. In this year we have plans to make them on DVD - such tablebases may be copied to hard disk on your computer.
URL ~
http://tb7.chessok.com/probe
Best wishes,
Norbert
Re: Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:35 am
by AdminX
I wonder how much that service (DVDs) would cost?
Re: Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 11:43 am
by Nordlandia
AdminX wrote:I wonder how much that service (DVDs) would cost?
In addition to hardware requirements to benefit from it. It's excellent news nevertheless.
Re: Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 12:24 pm
by shrapnel
How much space will be required on the Hard Disk ?
Will Komodo and Stockfish implement it ?
Re: Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 2:27 pm
by Jouni
It will be an big packet. 7 piece is compressed as 100 TBs vs. DVD capacity 17 GBs. 5880 discs
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Re: Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 2:35 pm
by Arpad Rusz
Some statistics about the KRPP/KRP file sizes:
http://tb7.chessok.com/statistic/krppkrp
Re: Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 4:40 pm
by rcmaddox
Norbert Raimund Leisner wrote:Hello,
the ChessOK a.k.a. Convekta support told me:
Lomonosov tablebases - it is 7 pieces engame tablebases. In this year we have plans to make them on DVD - such tablebases may be copied to hard disk on your computer.
URL ~
http://tb7.chessok.com/probe
Best wishes,
Norbert
Maybe. They said the same thing a year ago.
Re: Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 4:48 pm
by whereagles
can you put 100 TB on a hard drive..? are there any PB drives yet?
Re: Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 4:49 pm
by Bloodbane
Jouni wrote:It will be an big packet. 7 piece is compressed as 100 TBs vs. DVD capacity 17 GBs. 5880 discs :D .
This reminds me of something.
Re: Lomonosov Endgame Tablebases
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 4:49 pm
by Jouni
Why outdated DVDs, when bluray disc has 100 GB capacity?