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Subject: Re: Does Crafty still support the old tablebase format?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:23:55 06/26/99

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On June 26, 1999 at 10:22:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 26, 1999 at 10:11:45, Francois Bertin wrote:
>
>>
>>  Hi!
>>        Can Crafty (version 16.x and higher) still use the old uncompressed
>>tablebases?
>>
>>                                        Thanks,
>>                                                   François Bertin
>
>
>The compiled version will support compressed or uncompressed tablebases,
>but only the Nalimov format.  Eugene's probe code will support the old
>format, but you will have to recompile it to do so.  Look at egtb.cpp to
>see what is needed...


I forgot to say that you must _not_ use the kpkp tablebase in the old format.
It does not handle en passant correctly, and crafty no longer has the correction
for this, since the Nalimov files with 2 pawns handle ep properly...




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