Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:24:43 04/24/00
Go up one level in this thread
On April 24, 2000 at 20:18:49, Imran Hendley wrote:
>On April 24, 2000 at 20:10:45, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On April 24, 2000 at 19:56:14, Imran Hendley wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>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?
>>
>>This means that you have two different tablebase commands (both 'egtb' and
>>'tbpath') and also that one of them is bad, or that needed information is
>>missing at that point.
>>
>>What does you full crafty.rc file look like, and if you do a SET command, what
>>do you see for CRAFTY_* environment variables?
>
>I do not do a SET command, but here is my crafty.rc:
>
>egtb
This is a problem. You did not tell the engine where to find them yet. It
tries to load them when it sees this statement...
>tbpath=c:/winboard/tb
Here is where the location is defined...
>ponder off
>log off
>/hash=24M
>/hashp=4M
>/cache=4M
>learn 7
>resign 9
>noise 100000
>book on
>book random 1
>book width 2
>display extstats
>exit
>
>and with this position the games ends with illegal move Ka8 rejected, however
>both sides use TB's. In krkn only black does.
>
>[Event "Computer chess game"]
>[Site "A750"]
>[Date "2000.04.24"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "WCrafty-17_10"]
>[Black "WCrafty-17_10"]
>[Result "*"]
>[TimeControl "300"]
>[FEN "8/8/8/3k4/8/8/8/4K2R w K - 0 1"]
>[SetUp "1"]
>
>{--------------
>. . . . . . . .
>. . . . . . . .
>. . . . . . . .
>. . . k . . . .
>. . . . . . . .
>. . . . . . . .
>. . . . . . . .
>. . . . K . . R
>white to play
>--------------}
>1. Kf2 Kd6 2. Ke3 Ke6 3. Ke4 Kd6 4. Rh5 Ke7 5. Ke5 Kd7 6. Rh6 Kc7 7. Rd6
>Kb7 8. Kd5 Kc7 9. Kc5 Kb7 10. Rc6 Ka7 11. Rb6
>*
>
>Once again, thanks for all the help.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.