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6-piece Endgame Turbo 5: why you need it

3/21/2018 – The new Endgame Turbo 5 represents the ultimate tablebase collection available and can be used simply by sticking it into a USB port on your computer. It contains the full 3-4-5 and 6-piece tablebases on a pen drive so that neither hard disk space or SSD drive are required to take advantage of them. However, the big question is what is so special about them and why you need them. Read on and find out!

Syzygy tablebases: maximizing performance

2/10/2015 – Tablebases are wondrous tools to help analyze the endgame, and improve engine evaluation, but they do come at a cost. While the five-piece set will easily fit into almost any computer's memory without accessing the hard disk, the much larger files for six pieces can cause significant slow downs on some machines. Here are some tips to maximize performance.

Syzygy Tablebases: newest, fastest, smallest

2/8/2015 – The concept of tablebases is not new, and there have been several generations of them, such as the Thompson tablebases, the Nalimov tablebases and more. The latest engines such as Houdini 4 and Komodo 8 provide special support of the new Syzygy format. Discover what is so special about them, why you should not be without them, and learn just how easy they are to install.
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