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That produced a popup box with an error message saying "FinalGen: Could not paste the position. With the above FEN contained in windows clipboard, I clicked the "Paste FEN" button in FinalGen. But I'm still a newbie with FinalGen and have a few questions please. I installed FinalGen v1.1 on a different computer with Windows XP Pro SP3, 2GB RAM, Intel Core2 Duo T9300 It installed OK and I was able to generate 52GB 548 MB tablebases for a 7-piece position in 1h25min19s.
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I might try it again later when I find more free time.
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I didn't have the heart to start over, so have put FinalGen on the back burner for now.
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Thus the 265GB of data which it had generated is apparently worthless. So resuming the tablebase generation after such an interruption (computer freeze) is apparently not possible. So I rebooted computer (required to recover) and tried to resume the tablebase generation, but it said an unexpected error requires closing FinalGen. I wasn't multitasking any other software, just running FinalGen. I have no idea why pressing the FN key would cause the computer to freeze, except that this particular computer has a history of freezing at random occasionally. I pressed the FN key for a different unrelated purpose. Pressing the FN key is not an operation in FinalGen. Unfortunately after running FinalGen for 8+ hours and finishing 72% of the job, the computer froze when I pressed the FN key on the keyboard, with a (Not Responding) error message in the titlebar of FinalGen. So I allowed it to proceed and it seemed to be working OK. I aborted that, and switched to my computer's internal hard drive and it estimated about 11 hours for the job. I tried first with an external USB 2.0 drive but it wanted to take like 40-50 hours which was too long. That gave me courage to try a 9 piece position, total tablebase size 307GB. I installed the new 1.1 version of FinalGen on a Windows 7 圆4 computer with 4 GB RAM and tested it with a few simple quick positions. My thanks to the author for his considerable efforts. I believe it may be very useful software, representing a significant advance in endgame analysis and solving. It's very interesting software(!) and I hope these two problems (conflicts with anti-virus software, and proper operation of the installer/uninstaller) can be fixed soon, then I will consider investigating it further.
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Then I had to do a manual uninstall which was a bit complicated, and I'm not absolutely sure I got everything. Apparently it wasn't completely installed at that point, because when I attempted to uninstall it later there was an error message about not being able to read the uninstall.ini file, or some such. Note that I only installed it up to the point where it asked me if I wanted to "run" the software, which I declined. Perhaps I could create exclusions with avast, but I didn't try that (yet).
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For example I can't even install it with avast as my anti-virus, which flags and quarantines most if not all of the dll files during the install process. I believe the general final concensus there is that it probably has no viruses, but needs to do something to be more compatible with anti-virus software. It discusses, among other things, the flags it raises with various anti-virus software. There is also a long thread on the Rybka forum about FinalGen:
#Endgame tablebase 7 pieces generator#
FinalGen is a chess endgame tablebase generator for Windows.