Author: Frederic Friedel
Date: 02:52:58 09/11/00
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On September 11, 2000 at 05:36:33, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >>BTW Sune sent me a nifty little database I will test CB8 on. >>And hey - why doesn't my tablebase engine pop up in the engines list? BUG BUG >>BUG!!! >Ain't no bug. It's there, whirring and probing. Just try endgames with your >engines in the background. And if you keep shouting "BUG, BUG..." I'm gonna >call the bugbusters. Watch out. > > Hi Djordje, back on the trail? I didn't understand what a "tablesbase engine" is and when it should pop up. I have my TBs on hard disk (I got myself an extra 20 Gig for DM 249, and Win2000 did a great job recognising and partitioning it), but CB8 seems to get the results without consulting them. I'm entering positions like 3k1r2/8/8/4RP2/5K2/8/8/8 w - - 0 1 (wKf4,Re5,Pf5/bKd8,Rf8) and get instant analysis: 1.Kg5 +- (#29) Depth: 6/6 00:00:00, tb=21 (Friedel, ChessBase 11.09.2000) I know that CB8 is consulting the TBs (it records 21 seeks), but there is no detectable HD activity. So it has some kind of very efficient caching, or it looks into the TBs after I enter the position and before I fire up an engine (actually impossible, because it's the engine that does the lookup), or the hard disk is super fast and super quiet, so that 21 seeks don't even produce an LED flash.
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