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Subject: Re: Endgame tables for Tiger.

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 06:22:43 11/22/00

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On November 22, 2000 at 08:53:09, Georg Langrath wrote:

>On November 22, 2000 at 07:14:55, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On November 22, 2000 at 01:27:41, Georg Langrath wrote:
>>
>>>Tiger 3 has endgame tables for among others KPK in the program on its root
>>>directory. If you put this away it can't handle simple opposition.
>>>
>>>Somebody in earlier message was shocked that Tiger could not handle king against
>>>king, bishop and knight. It should be easy to fix. You only have to import
>>>endgame table for it.
>>>
>>>I think I read somewhere that you can buy endgame tables for Tiger. But perhaps
>>>you also can import them from Internet?
>>>
>>>Those for KPK are called KPK.tbb, KPK.tbs and KPK.tbw. Is that a wellknown
>>>format that you can import from Internet? I don't know much about endgame
>>>tables.
>>>
>>>Georg
>>
>>
>>ChessTiger does NOT use tablebases.
>>The Lokasoft engine will.
>>
>>Sarah.
>
>I don't understand exactly what you mean, Sarah. Mentioned KPK.tbb, KPK.tbs and
>KPK.tbw must be a tablebase for ChessTiger, because if I remove it, ChessTiger
>can't handle simple opposition with king against king, pawn. It can when I have
>them left. It also has a couple of similar files that has the same
>fileendingsnames. For example KRK.* and KQK.*. If that isn't tablebases, what is
>it then?
>
>Georg

Those are table bases but they are only used by the Lokasoft engine.

Lex




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