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Subject: Re: Crafty tablebase file format

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:21:35 05/24/98

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On May 24, 1998 at 18:21:08, Roberto Waldteufel wrote:

>
>Hi Mark,
>
>I'm sorry to see no replies to your request, because I also would like
>to obtain a set of endgame table-bases in a format I can read. It's all
>very well to have many  megabytes of raw data, but much more useful when
>you know how it's organised. My reason for wanting this information is
>more mundane than yours, as I am developing a chess playing program
>which would doubtless benefit substantially from such table-bases. I
>could construct some of these table-bases from scratch, but this would
>take a lot of time and effort. The process of constructing such tables
>is quite tricky, as I can testify after having done this for a number of
>draughts (checkers) endgames with up to six men on the board. If you
>find out the structure of Crafty's table-bases please post it here or
>email me at REWaldteufel@compuserve.com.
>
>Good Luck
>
>Roberto



best place to start is with Steven Edward's tablebase generators and
documentation...  looking at the probe code in crafty won't be real
enlightening.. :)



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