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7-man
==7-man==
Ronald de Man wasn't initially interested in the creation of 7-men Syzygy Based <ref>[http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discussion-board/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7618#p83771 Re: 7-piece syzygy] by [[Ronald de Man|syzygy]], [[Computer Chess Forums|CCRL Discussion Board]], July 03, 2014</ref> since the generation of 7-man tablebases would require about 1 TB of RAM, too expensive at that time. Generation time would be about 64 x per table, which means around 175 x time total <ref>[http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discussion-board/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7396#p83338 Re: Syzygy tb generator for windows] by [[Ronald de Man|syzygy]], [[Computer Chess Forums|CCRL Discussion Board]], June 01, 2014</ref>. His original generator could not create them. But in 2018, he supported [[Bojun Guo]] in his 5-month attempt to generated them <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66797 7-men Syzygy attempt] by [[Bojun Guo]], [[CCC]], March 10, 2018</ref>. His hardware was estimated at over US$ 90K. Generation time will be about 64 x per table, which means around 175 x time total <ref>[http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discussion-board/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7396#p83338 Re: Syzygy tb generator for windows] by [[Ronald de Man|syzygy]], [[Computer Chess Forums|CCRL Discussion Board]], June 01, 2014</ref>. In August of 2018 their creation was completed<ref>[https://syzygy-tables.info/ Powered by Ronald de Man's Syzygy endgame tablebases, 7-piece tables generated by Bojun Guo and a public API hosted by lichess.org], August 19, 2018</ref><ref>[http://tablebase.lichess.ovh/tables/standard/7/ Index of /tables/standard/7/ on lichess], August 19, 2018</ref>.
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