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

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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