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Subject: Re: How to build EGTB?

Author: Pham Minh Tri

Date: 21:26:02 02/23/01

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On February 23, 2001 at 07:37:54, Severi Salminen wrote:

>>- How EGTB works.
>Basically you check when you arrive to a new node whether it is in tablebase
>files. If it is you probe the right file and extract the score and return it. If
>it is not you continue normally.
>
>>- How it is better (I guess) than normal coding (I means use switch/case/if
>>statements instead of EGTB).
>
>I don't quite understand your question. I don't understand what switch/... has
>to do with EGTB? Could you be more specific - what do you mean by "normal"?

I means the question: is there any other method than EGTB for getting same
result?

>>- How to build an EGTB.
>
>By downloading a EGTB generator from somewhere and generating the files yourself
>(you need patience, a lot RAM and hard drive space and a fast processor) or
>downloading the EGTB files themselves (recommended).

Could you recommend me some links for downloading generator and EGTB files?

Thank you very much for your help, I get the point and feel more confident to
start now.

>Severi



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