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Gaviota 3-4-5 Soon available

Post by jshriver »

I finished generating the 3-4-5men set for the gaviota engine/egtb's.
It will probably take about 12 hours or more to upload to my site but they will be stored there. Included is a sha1sum and md5sum of the files but the authors tbcheck also works wonderfully.

http://olympuschess.com/egtb/gaviota/

The completed set is 38gigs, but I bzip2 compressed them down to 7.1gigs for bandwidth and storage reasons. Once an official compression tool is released I'll recompress them on the server. If you plan to use them please uncompress them for use.

Happy Holidays everyone,
-Josh
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Re: Gaviota 3-4-5 Soon available

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Thanks Josh for hosting the files. A minor question from me:

What is the name of tablebases? Gaviota or Ballicora as Dann suggested.

Best,
hi, merhaba, hallo HT
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Re: Gaviota 3-4-5 Soon available

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Good question, hopefully the author can let us know what he prefers.

-Josh
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Re: Gaviota 3-4-5 Soon available

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jshriver wrote:Good question, hopefully the author can let us know what he prefers.

-Josh
Thanks Josh. Agreed. Or a poll could be created for the choice,
if he wishes.

Best,

PS: My ego is rising or my superego is full of confidence now. :)
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Re: Gaviota 3-4-5 Soon available

Post by mhalstern »

I downloaded them all from your site. My directory is smaller than 7.1 Gigs though. Am I missing something?

My directory listing:



12/22/2009 10:26 PM 6,340 g345.md5
12/22/2009 10:26 PM 7,500 g345.sh1
12/22/2009 10:27 PM 4,937,090 kbbbk.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 10:30 PM 255,507 kbbk.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 10:30 PM 8,239,552 kbbkb.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 10:38 PM 28,136,284 kbbkn.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 10:55 PM 68,183,901 kbbkp.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:06 PM 39,205,013 kbbkq.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:08 PM 8,944,656 kbbkr.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:16 PM 24,414,577 kbbnk.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:35 PM 71,671,167 kbbpk.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:35 PM 1,598 kbk.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:35 PM 116,973 kbkb.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:35 PM 97,101 kbkn.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:35 PM 1,046,474 kbkp.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:42 PM 947,388 kbnk.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:41 PM 22,705,539 kbnkb.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:50 PM 31,488,021 kbnkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:50 AM 223,209,909 kbnkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:20 AM 92,770,265 kbnkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:29 AM 25,637,054 kbnkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:39 AM 30,446,312 kbnnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 02:22 AM 135,562,790 kbnpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 02:49 AM 2,449,874 kbpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 02:48 AM 90,694,708 kbpkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 03:28 AM 140,622,430 kbpkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 04:09 AM 149,613,427 kbpkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 04:59 AM 201,387,069 kbpkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:22 AM 98,035,270 kbpkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:34 AM 51,463,843 kbppk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:34 AM 1,276 knk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:34 AM 91,384 knkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:34 AM 1,439,867 knkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:35 AM 25,932 knnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:35 AM 3,816,451 knnkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:36 AM 3,593,706 knnkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:51 AM 65,177,668 knnkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:01 AM 40,270,442 knnkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:02 AM 5,809,940 knnkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:04 AM 8,938,509 knnnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:20 AM 67,935,425 knnpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:43 AM 2,205,594 knpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:42 AM 95,004,842 knpkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 07:11 AM 122,134,362 knpkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 07:47 AM 151,144,462 knpkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 08:38 AM 218,296,768 knpkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:03 AM 109,361,228 knpkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:14 AM 44,850,115 knppk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:14 AM 31,486 kpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:14 AM 1,930,699 kpkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:26 AM 752,774 kppk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:26 AM 48,935,432 kppkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:40 AM 61,160,326 kppkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:53 AM 53,044,692 kppkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:09 AM 68,120,070 kppkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:25 AM 69,619,813 kppkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:27 AM 9,215,465 kpppk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:30 AM 12,955,596 kqbbk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:42 AM 536,707 kqbk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:42 AM 49,759,924 kqbkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:54 AM 49,879,758 kqbkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 11:25 AM 133,200,958 kqbkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 11:34 AM 36,468,108 kqbkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 11:47 AM 57,795,795 kqbkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 11:54 AM 28,124,553 kqbnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:18 PM 104,994,007 kqbpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:19 PM 12,257 kqk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:19 PM 1,006,153 kqkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:19 PM 1,072,497 kqkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:19 PM 2,480,701 kqkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:20 PM 551,144 kqkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:20 PM 1,343,927 kqkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:32 PM 475,491 kqnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:32 PM 52,108,397 kqnkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:44 PM 51,249,337 kqnkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:14 PM 126,872,108 kqnkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:22 PM 36,254,941 kqnkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:37 PM 61,811,163 kqnkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:40 PM 13,497,056 kqnnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 02:02 PM 91,534,987 kqnpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 02:45 PM 1,751,394 kqpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 02:44 PM 180,551,962 kqpkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 03:26 PM 175,960,982 kqpkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 03:52 PM 108,759,065 kqpkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 04:30 PM 165,450,166 kqpkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:20 PM 209,734,359 kqpkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:28 PM 36,216,390 kqppk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:30 PM 8,238,362 kqqbk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:35 PM 187,692 kqqk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:35 PM 20,691,979 kqqkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:39 PM 17,419,825 kqqkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:50 PM 46,813,172 kqqkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:56 PM 23,821,929 kqqkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:01 PM 21,461,553 kqqkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:02 PM 7,348,482 kqqnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:12 PM 39,056,339 kqqpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:12 PM 1,586,608 kqqqk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:13 PM 6,223,648 kqqrk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:19 PM 22,303,549 kqrbk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:31 PM 403,149 kqrk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:30 PM 50,830,530 kqrkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:41 PM 44,276,612 kqrkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 07:05 PM 101,279,455 kqrkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 07:21 PM 67,885,995 kqrkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 07:32 PM 48,206,078 kqrkr.gtb.bz2
105 File(s) 5,125,651,200 bytes
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Re: Gaviota 3-4-5 Soon available

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Hi Marc,

Sounds like you are missing some files (they are 145). Easiest way to find out which one is: unzip them all, put them in the folder gtb that comes with the gaviota distribution and run "tbcheck gtb" as described in the website (see mi signature). That will tell which ones are missing and if they are not corrupted.

Miguel
mhalstern wrote:I downloaded them all from your site. My directory is smaller than 7.1 Gigs though. Am I missing something?

My directory listing:



12/22/2009 10:26 PM 6,340 g345.md5
12/22/2009 10:26 PM 7,500 g345.sh1
12/22/2009 10:27 PM 4,937,090 kbbbk.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 10:30 PM 255,507 kbbk.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 10:30 PM 8,239,552 kbbkb.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 10:38 PM 28,136,284 kbbkn.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 10:55 PM 68,183,901 kbbkp.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:06 PM 39,205,013 kbbkq.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:08 PM 8,944,656 kbbkr.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:16 PM 24,414,577 kbbnk.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:35 PM 71,671,167 kbbpk.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:35 PM 1,598 kbk.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:35 PM 116,973 kbkb.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:35 PM 97,101 kbkn.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:35 PM 1,046,474 kbkp.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:42 PM 947,388 kbnk.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:41 PM 22,705,539 kbnkb.gtb.bz2
12/22/2009 11:50 PM 31,488,021 kbnkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:50 AM 223,209,909 kbnkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:20 AM 92,770,265 kbnkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:29 AM 25,637,054 kbnkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:39 AM 30,446,312 kbnnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 02:22 AM 135,562,790 kbnpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 02:49 AM 2,449,874 kbpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 02:48 AM 90,694,708 kbpkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 03:28 AM 140,622,430 kbpkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 04:09 AM 149,613,427 kbpkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 04:59 AM 201,387,069 kbpkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:22 AM 98,035,270 kbpkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:34 AM 51,463,843 kbppk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:34 AM 1,276 knk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:34 AM 91,384 knkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:34 AM 1,439,867 knkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:35 AM 25,932 knnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:35 AM 3,816,451 knnkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:36 AM 3,593,706 knnkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:51 AM 65,177,668 knnkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:01 AM 40,270,442 knnkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:02 AM 5,809,940 knnkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:04 AM 8,938,509 knnnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:20 AM 67,935,425 knnpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:43 AM 2,205,594 knpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:42 AM 95,004,842 knpkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 07:11 AM 122,134,362 knpkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 07:47 AM 151,144,462 knpkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 08:38 AM 218,296,768 knpkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:03 AM 109,361,228 knpkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:14 AM 44,850,115 knppk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:14 AM 31,486 kpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:14 AM 1,930,699 kpkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:26 AM 752,774 kppk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:26 AM 48,935,432 kppkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:40 AM 61,160,326 kppkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 09:53 AM 53,044,692 kppkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:09 AM 68,120,070 kppkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:25 AM 69,619,813 kppkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:27 AM 9,215,465 kpppk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:30 AM 12,955,596 kqbbk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:42 AM 536,707 kqbk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:42 AM 49,759,924 kqbkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 10:54 AM 49,879,758 kqbkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 11:25 AM 133,200,958 kqbkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 11:34 AM 36,468,108 kqbkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 11:47 AM 57,795,795 kqbkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 11:54 AM 28,124,553 kqbnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:18 PM 104,994,007 kqbpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:19 PM 12,257 kqk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:19 PM 1,006,153 kqkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:19 PM 1,072,497 kqkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:19 PM 2,480,701 kqkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:20 PM 551,144 kqkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:20 PM 1,343,927 kqkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:32 PM 475,491 kqnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:32 PM 52,108,397 kqnkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 12:44 PM 51,249,337 kqnkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:14 PM 126,872,108 kqnkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:22 PM 36,254,941 kqnkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:37 PM 61,811,163 kqnkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 01:40 PM 13,497,056 kqnnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 02:02 PM 91,534,987 kqnpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 02:45 PM 1,751,394 kqpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 02:44 PM 180,551,962 kqpkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 03:26 PM 175,960,982 kqpkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 03:52 PM 108,759,065 kqpkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 04:30 PM 165,450,166 kqpkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:20 PM 209,734,359 kqpkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:28 PM 36,216,390 kqppk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:30 PM 8,238,362 kqqbk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:35 PM 187,692 kqqk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:35 PM 20,691,979 kqqkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:39 PM 17,419,825 kqqkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:50 PM 46,813,172 kqqkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 05:56 PM 23,821,929 kqqkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:01 PM 21,461,553 kqqkr.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:02 PM 7,348,482 kqqnk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:12 PM 39,056,339 kqqpk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:12 PM 1,586,608 kqqqk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:13 PM 6,223,648 kqqrk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:19 PM 22,303,549 kqrbk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:31 PM 403,149 kqrk.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:30 PM 50,830,530 kqrkb.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 06:41 PM 44,276,612 kqrkn.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 07:05 PM 101,279,455 kqrkp.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 07:21 PM 67,885,995 kqrkq.gtb.bz2
12/23/2009 07:32 PM 48,206,078 kqrkr.gtb.bz2
105 File(s) 5,125,651,200 bytes
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Re: Gaviota 3-4-5 Soon available

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I found some that I was missing and am getting them now.

This page that I found in the thread:

http://olympuschess.com/egtb/gaviota/

only has download links for 121 *.bz2 files

It looks like Joshua is updating the page now, as I find it unlikely that I didn't see the 11 missing files earlier.

I'll check back later or tomorrow for the other 24.

Thanks
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Re: Gaviota 3-4-5 Soon available

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beachknight wrote:Thanks Josh for hosting the files. A minor question from me:

What is the name of tablebases? Gaviota or Ballicora as Dann suggested.

Best,
The name of the engine with the tablebases is Gaviota, the name of my father is Ballicora, and my name is Miguel :-). I really do not mind any. Besides, users are the one who finally choose the name with, many times, whatever is easier to type. Look at GNU/Linux. Everybody calls is just Linux despite Richard Stallman's anger. Is these TBs will have any popularity, the users will choose for us. I propose Gaviota.

For a while I thought, to give a special name to the TBs, separated from Gaviota, but I think it is pointless. Anyway, a good alternative name for TBs would be "Funes", inspired in the short masterpiece by Borges
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funes_the_Memorious

I strongly suggest to read "Funes, the memorious", a very short story. It will take you only few, but "unforgettable" minutes.
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspa ... borges.htm

Which almost at the end has this powerful paragraph
"Without effort, he had learned English, French, Portuguese, Latin. I suspect, nevertheless, that he was not very capable of thought. To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract. In the overly replete world of Funes there were nothing but details, almost contiguous details."

Miguel
PS: The only thing that is a deal breaker is to call the MP version of Gaviota, **** Gaviota as I mention in my web site. That is beyond ugly.
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Re: Gaviota 3-4-5 Soon available

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mhalstern wrote:I found some that I was missing and am getting them now.

This page that I found in the thread:

http://olympuschess.com/egtb/gaviota/

only has download links for 121 *.bz2 files

It looks like Joshua is updating the page now, as I find it unlikely that I didn't see the 11 missing files earlier.

I'll check back later or tomorrow for the other 24.

Thanks
Since you were downloading while he was uploading, now I strongly recommend to run tbcheck after decompressing to make sure everything is fine.

Miguel
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Re: Gaviota 3-4-5 Soon available

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jshriver wrote:I finished generating the 3-4-5men set for the gaviota engine/egtb's.
It will probably take about 12 hours or more to upload to my site but they will be stored there. Included is a sha1sum and md5sum of the files but the authors tbcheck also works wonderfully.

http://olympuschess.com/egtb/gaviota/

The completed set is 38gigs, but I bzip2 compressed them down to 7.1gigs for bandwidth and storage reasons. Once an official compression tool is released I'll recompress them on the server. If you plan to use them please uncompress them for use.

Happy Holidays everyone,
-Josh
Hi Josh,

Thanks a lot for doing this. I plan to release the compressor soon. I have it already but it is a bit awkward you use as it is. It compresses file by file, so I run it with a loop in a script. I working now to put it in a more friendly shape. Possibly with the same format as tbcheck, so the people would type, say, "tbcomp gtb", and all the files will be compressed in the folder.

I will later make the generator create them compressed already, but first we need a utility for the people who obtained the uncompressed files.

Miguel