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Subject: Re: Prblem with EGTBs

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 21:47:00 02/24/99

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On February 24, 1999 at 21:26:52, James Long wrote:

>On February 24, 1999 at 21:09:18, James Long wrote:
>
>>On February 24, 1999 at 21:06:11, James Long wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I'm seeing another problem using the 4 man tb's.
>>>
>>>When I set up this position:
>>>
>>>7k/7p/8/8/8/8/5KP1/8 w - - 0 1
>>>
>>>and start the search, the result is "draw," the
>>>move is g3.
>>>
>>>As soon as the move gxh5 is made, the score
>>>is "mate in 25."
>>>
>>>At this point the white king abandons the pawn
>>>and goes for a stroll, but the score still
>>>reflects a mate.
>>>
>>>The black king doesn't capture, even though
>>>he could.  The pawn promotes and the black
>>>king is eventually mated.
>>>
>>>I'm validating the tablebases now, but I think
>>>something strange must be happening in my search.
>>>
>>>Frustrating. :-\
>>>
>>>Anybody else seen something like this ?
>>>
>>>BTW - it's not the null move.  I disabled them
>>>and the results were the same.
>>>
>>>--
>>>James
>>
>>
>>Turns out there are error with the tb's.
>>"Unable to read krkr.nbw.emd - file broken."
>>
>>I just created them!  Wonder what happened...
>>
>>--
>>James
>
>
>I've found a problem:
>
>After generating the three man tablebases and verifying
>them, there are no problems.  I even ran tbstat and
>saw no broken positions.
>
>After than I compressed krk.nbw, and reverified krk
>by typing "tbgen -m 4 -c 1 krk" : no problems.
>
>When I run "tbstat krk.nbw.emd" there are 21 broken
>positions...
>
>I'm running Win98, using the executables from Hyatt's
>FTP site.
>
>---
>James

TBSTAT will not work on compressed file. It just counts #
of different bytes in the file. For compressed TB you'll
calculate garbage...

Eugene



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