Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 15:13:56 12/28/00
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On December 28, 2000 at 15:16:27, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 28, 2000 at 14:56:00, David Rasmussen wrote: > >>What do I need from Hyatt's ftp site to implement tablebases in my program? >>When I have the 5 man tables, I don't need the 4 or 3 man tables, right? > >Here is why you still need them: >The higher level tables will assume that they exist. So if you have KNNkp and a >knight gets captured, the next searches will be KNkp. If you have any tablebase >file with pawns, you also need the tablebase files that are underneath of it. > >>If these are idiotic questions, then please don't tell anybody, that I asked >>them. I'll deny. > >Too late, they are salted away forever in the archives. >;-) > >One more thing you need: >Eugene's permission to use it. I think it will be free for non-commercial use. I asked him once, but have gotten no answer, if I remember correctly. I have fetched the 3 man tables from Bob's ftp. But I have no clue what to do now. I'm a big boy, and I usually find out stuff like this myself, but I haven't been able to find anything on what to do with the files. As I understand, they are compressed. How do I read them? What do they contain? Will Eugenes code do the uncompressing and reading? What does Eugenes code return? Mate in n scores ?
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