Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:04:14 11/22/00
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On November 22, 2000 at 10:47:03, Georg Langrath wrote:
>On November 22, 2000 at 08:53:09, Georg Langrath wrote:
>
>>On November 22, 2000 at 07:14:55, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>On November 22, 2000 at 01:27:41, Georg Langrath wrote:
>>>
>>>>Tiger 3 has endgame tables for among others KPK in the program on its root
>>>>directory. If you put this away it can't handle simple opposition.
>>>>
>>>>Somebody in earlier message was shocked that Tiger could not handle king against
>>>>king, bishop and knight. It should be easy to fix. You only have to import
>>>>endgame table for it.
>>>>
>>>>I think I read somewhere that you can buy endgame tables for Tiger. But perhaps
>>>>you also can import them from Internet?
>>>>
>>>>Those for KPK are called KPK.tbb, KPK.tbs and KPK.tbw. Is that a wellknown
>>>>format that you can import from Internet? I don't know much about endgame
>>>>tables.
>>>>
>>>>Georg
>>>
>>>
>>>ChessTiger does NOT use tablebases.
>>>The Lokasoft engine will.
>>>
>>>Sarah.
>>
>>I don't understand exactly what you mean, Sarah. Mentioned KPK.tbb, KPK.tbs and
>>KPK.tbw must be a tablebase for ChessTiger, because if I remove it, ChessTiger
>>can't handle simple opposition with king against king, pawn. It can when I have
>>them left. It also has a couple of similar files that has the same
>>fileendingsnames. For example KRK.* and KQK.*. If that isn't tablebases, what is
>>it then?
>>
>>Georg
>
>Embarrassing. You are right Sarah. When I made my experiments with or without
>tablebase, I had Lokasoft engine. I was unaware of it. I thought I had
>ChessTiger engine in it. Nobody is perfect. I thought I was, but now I realize
>that I am not.
>
>Georg
The Chess Tiger and Gambit Tiger engines should handle the KPK positions
perfectly (or almost) because the KPK tablebase is hard-coded inside the engine
itself.
Christophe
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