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==DVD==
As of February 2015, all 3-5 and most important 6-men Syzygy Bases are commercially available on 4 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD DVDs] by [[ChessBase]] as ''Endgame Turbo 4'' for their products [[Fritz|Deep Fritz 14]], [[Komodo#8|Komodo Chess 8]], [[Houdini|Houdini 4]] or [[ChessBase (Database)|ChessBase 12/13]] <ref>[http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/endspiel_turbo_4 Endgame Turbo 4] by [[ChessBase]]</ref> <ref>[http://en.chessbase.com/post/syzygy-tablebases-newest-fastest-smallest Syzygy Tablebases: newest, fastest, smallest] by [[Albert Silver]], [[ChessBase|ChessBase News]], February 08, 2015</ref>.
 
==Free Download==
 
===3-6 men===
The sizes of those men are small enough to download and store on modern computers. Users should download them in full sets (3, 4, 5, 6 men).
1) KRPPvKRP 2) KBPPvKBP 3) KPPPvKPP 4) KRPPPvKR 5) KQPPvKQP 6) KNPPvKNP 7) KNPPvKBP 8) KRBPvKRP 9) KQPPvKPP 10) KQPPPvKP
11) KBPPvKNP 12) KRPPvKRB 13) KRPPvKPP 14) KBPPvKRP 15) KRNPvKRP 16) KRBPPvKR 17) KBPPvKPP 18) KRPPPvKP 19) KRBPvKRB 20) KRPPvKRN
 
=Probe Code and Tools=
==Stockfish==
 
[[Ronald de Man]] did not provide the probe code as an independent library. Instead, he published it firstly as an already integrated code for [[Stockfish]] chess engines. It is c++ code and it has been rewritten, updated several times by [[Stockfish]] team.
==Fathom==
 
'''Fathom''' is a stand-alone Syzygy based probing tool and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface API] by [[Basil Falcinelli]], introduced in November 2015 along with his [[Gull|Gull 3]] release <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58299 Gull 3 Linux+Syzygy and Fathom released] by [[Basil Falcinelli]], [[CCC]], November 20, 2015</ref> . Unlike the original tbprobe code, Fathom does not necessarily require the callee to provide [[Move Generation|move generation]] functionality. The new modifications and extensions to Ronald de Man's original code which can be "redistributed and/or modified without restrictions", are released under the permissive [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology#License|MIT License]]. The API consists of three functions <ref>[https://github.com/basil00/Fathom GitHub - basil00/Fathom: Syzygy TB probe tool] by [[Basil Falcinelli]]</ref> :
* tb_init initializes the tablebase

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