Generate syzygy databases on 64bit Windows

[JohnS]

Does anyone have a compiled program to generate these databases on Windows and instructions on how to do it?

Thank you.

[MikeB]

Does anyone have a compiled program to generate these databases on Windows and instructions on how to do it?

Thank you.

I can copy them to flash drive for you. eBay has 256 gb flash drives for less than $10. Pm me if interested. I did make them on my 12 core Mac Pro with 64 gb ram and using ssd drives took a little longer than 48 hours for the 6 man set. That was a actually combination of some downloading and building them, but mostly building.

[Dann Corbit]

Does anyone have a compiled program to generate these databases on Windows and instructions on how to do it?

Thank you.

The programs and instructions are found here:
https://github.com/syzygy1/tb

I downloaded them, but it takes about the same time to build them as it does to download them.

A SSD will probably make building faster. I just used normal disk at the time.

[syzygy]

A SSD will probably make building faster. I just used normal disk at the time.

A regular hard disk to build them is just fine. There are no random disk accesses other than probing of a few tables which will be cached to RAM.

What is important is having at least 16 GB RAM (and reading the instructions).

Executables for windows can be found here:
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discuss ... 005#p82005

There is no need to run the verification. Just check the md5sums after generation (or the internal checksum with tbcheck, but that turns out to be too much of a hassle for most).

[JohnS]

Thanks all for the advice and thanks Ronald for the link to the exe file.