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ChessBase is a horrible program and you don’t need it to get your own tablebases. You can generate your own with: https://github.com/syzygy1/tb https://github.
by thom 2y ago
ChessBase is a horrible program and you don’t need it to get your own tablebases. You can generate your own with:
https://github.com/syzygy1/tb https://github.com/syzygy1/tb
But everything up to 6 pieces is on BitTorrent these days. The 7 piece tablebase is 20TB or so, so it’ll be a few years before you can fit that one your phone. Pretty sure Lichess has an API for that. Never tried to hook it up to Stockfish or Leela though.
- Sesse__ 2y agoYou definitely do not want to generate your own 7-man tablebases. It took computers with hundreds of gigabytes of RAM over a year to construct. :-) Even 6-man takes quite a while. (345 you can do easily enough now.) You don't need to muck around with BitTorrent to get them; several mirrors have them over HTTP.
- thom 2y agoOn the off chance you’re _the_ Sesse, can I thank you personally for your analysis site. Pretty sure I saw it hit 5000 viewers during Ding’s magnificent win this week.
- Sesse__ 2y agoI am, and you're welcome :-) It very briefly passed 6k, AFAIK. (The interest during Carlsen–Caruana was much higher, but that's just a natural fact of who's playing.)