Author: Imran Hendley
Date: 16:56:14 04/24/00
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On April 24, 2000 at 19:44:20, Dann Corbit wrote: >On April 24, 2000 at 19:28:16, Imran Hendley wrote: > >>I have the 3, 4 and 5-man tablebases downloaded from Dr. Hyatt's site in the >>folder C:\Winboard\TB and in my Crafty.ini I have: >> >>egtb >>tbpath=c:\winboard\tb >> >>But the tablebases do not seem to work properly. Sometimes Crafty will find >>them, but an error "illegal move" will come up. Other times Winboard will >>perform an illegal operation while Crafty is using the tablebases, and finally >>sometimes Crafty will not use a tablebase at all for a position which I have the >>tablebase for. Does anyone know what is causing this? > >Some possiblities... > >First, when you start crafty does it say something like this: >EPD Kit revision date: 1996.04.21 >found computer opening book file [e:/crafty/release/bookc.bin]. >using cpu time >search time set to 9999.00. >Crafty 17.10 vs ferret >pondering enabled. >EGTB cache memory = 6M bytes. >hash table memory = 24M bytes. >pawn hash table memory = 8M bytes. >EGTB access enabled >using tbpath=e:/crafty/release/tb,F:/KBP >4 piece tablebase files found >1302kb of RAM used for TB indices and decompression tables > > >Crafty v17.10 > >White(1): > >Note (especially) the "4 piece tablebase files found" line, which in your case >should say "5 piece tablebase files found" instead. One way to control how >crafty finds things is with SET commands like this: >SET CRAFTY_BOOK_PATH=e:/crafty/release >SET CRAFTY_LOG_PATH=e:/crafty/release >SET CRAFTY_RC_PATH=e:/crafty/release >SET CRAFTY_TB_PATH=e:/crafty/release/tb,F:/KBP > >Or (better yet) use control panel to set them up. > >Assuming you can find and load the tablebase files, find a position that causes >problems. > >Are you using multiple CPU's or a single CPU? Thanks for your very helpful post. I get all the same messages as you, except for a curious "0 piece tablebase files found" before "5 piece tablebase files found" and when I load a simple KR (w) vs. KN (b) in a crafty vs. crafty winboard window, only black accesses the tablebases. I tried this with Machine Black, and then Machine White, and again only black accessed the tablebases... Do you know why?
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