Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:37:57 06/26/99
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On June 26, 1999 at 11:50:43, Francois Bertin wrote: > > Thanks. I guess I'll have to download the new tablebases then... I asked >that question because I have the old format 4-man tablebases on the MCP8 >CDROM, which would have spared me the download chores... :-/ you can build the 3-4 piece files in 2 hours on a reasonable machine (I did it on a Pentium/mmx/233 notebook when Eugene first wrote the generator. The generator executable is on my ftp machine in the TB directory... > > >On June 26, 1999 at 10:23:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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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