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Subject: Re: The Crazy Bishop: Question

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 09:44:22 04/21/00

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On April 21, 2000 at 11:47:23, Peter Skinner wrote:

>I am trying out the new version of TCB 0045, and I have editted the config file
>for it, yet I see no disk action when tablebases should be used in a game..
>Can someone help that maybe uses TCB? Here is my init file:
>
>
>;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>;;
>;; tcbxinit.cui
>;;
>;; initialization file to run TCB with xboard or WinBoard
>;;
>;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>prompt off
>
>; Eugene Nalimov's EGTBs
>; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>chesslib
> nalimov
>
>  ;;; path to EGTBs. This can be a comma-separated list of directories.
>  ;;; edit and uncomment the following line to enable EGTBs
>  init C:\Crafty\tb
>
>  ;;; A large enough cache is necessary so that EGTBs work
>  ;;; The cache size is given in bytes
>  ;;; Uncomment the following line to allocate a cache for TBs
>  ; cache 10000000

Try uncommenting this line by removing the ";" so it reads:

cache 10000000

not

;cache 10000000

>
> x
>p
>
>special
>
> ; Opening book
> ; ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> pgnbook <Fritz4.pgn
>
> ; Tablebases (obsolete format)
> ; ~~~~~~~~~~
> tblist
>  ;;; edit tblist.cui and uncomment the following line to use tablebases
>  ; myself <tblist.cui
> x
>
> ; Hash table (size in bytes)
> ; ~~~~~~~~~~
> size 24000000
>
>x
>Also does anyone have a better book than the fritz4.pgn that I got off Frank's
>site?

I use the book that came with TCB, not the Fritz4 book that comes from Frank's
site, I can't make the Fritz4 book work, and TCB plays a killer game using it's
own book anyhow.

Pere



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