
Completing the 3-to-6-men tablebase collection of about 1.2 Terabytes Dom Abr 26, 2009 12:09 pm
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http://contentdb.emule-project.net/view.php?pid=1630Historically Nalimov Tablebases were computed by Eugene Nalimov and distributed by Robert Hyatt via FTP. Gradually Nalimov was releasing more and more gigabytes of 6-men tablebases and at some point Bob's FTP could not handle the load. 6-men tablebases were removed from FTP and disappeared from online space. The only way to get them was by personal communication with other chess fans.
In November 2005 several enthusiasts started a project to find and share all surviving tablebases. Many people joined contributing files they managed to save. At the same time Nalimov was continuing to release new 6-men tablebases that were now shared via this project.
In August 2006 the last 6-men tablebases were computed, completing the 3-to-6-men tablebase collection of about 1.2 Terabytes. Thanks to community support, the whole collection is now freely available online on eD2K/KAD network.
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