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Subject: Re: EGTB question

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:25:01 01/27/01

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On January 27, 2001 at 15:57:20, Les Fernandez wrote:

>I have downloaded 117 out of 220 files taken from the 5 piece egtb from Bob's
>site.  I placed these 117 files into my crafty tb folder (also contains the full
>3 and 4 egtb set).  I am currently running crafty vs crafty with egtb=0.  All
>was running fine until the new incomplete 5 piece egtb was added.  The error I
>am getting is:
>
>Error: First chess program (crafty1.exe) exited unexpectedly
>Erro: Writing to first chess program. The pipe has been ended.
>
>Does crafty check to make sure that the entire set of a particular egtb is
>present even if I have set egtb=0?? or does the error commnets suggest that of
>the 5 piece egtb's I have that one or more are corrupted???
>


If you have a _partial_ TB, that is killing you.  Don't put partial files
in with the others.  Crafty will notice this and quit right after it starts.
Xboard won't be happy about it either...



>Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.
>
>BTW I then removed all the 5 piece files from the tb directory and it is working
>fine again??
>
>Thanks,
>
>Les



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