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Subject: Re: Are there 3 and 4 piece Ken Thompson tables?

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 00:58:14 07/30/00

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On July 30, 2000 at 00:24:44, Bruce Ramsey wrote:

>Hi - I got the 5-piece Ken Thompson endgame tables working fine with the
>Lokasoft engine in Chess Partner 4.3
>
>But when I tried 3-piece things like BNK_K, the engine clearly stopped hitting
>the 5-piece endgame tables.
>
>I had thought that the 5-piece Ken Thompson tables also covered 3 and 4 piece
>positions, but apparently not.  I tried the same thing in Shredder4, and got the
>same no-joy result.
>
>Of course Shredder 4 also supports the Nalimov tables (I turned them off to test
>3-piece endings with Ken Thompson tables).
>
>But, Lokasoft in CP4.3 doesn't support Nalimov tables.
>
>Is there somewhere where I can down-load 3 and 4 piece Ken Thompson tables?
>
>Any help much appreciated...
>
>thanks, Bruce


I think the 3 and 4 piece databases are contained whitin the 5 piece
database files. I just tried BNK_K and it worked fine, you need the
CD which contains the BN_N.G file.

Lex






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