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Subject: Re: What's wrong? Fritz or TB's?! TO ALL THOSE WHO RESPONDED!

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 07:28:40 03/22/01

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On March 22, 2001 at 09:56:43, James T. Walker wrote:

>On March 22, 2001 at 01:00:52, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>I guess I should have made this more clear in my original post, but I have ALL
>>3/4/5 piece tablebases & I compared them _ALL_ with the ones on Hyatt's FTP
>>site, and they are _ALL_ the same size.  Therefore, it's not the tablebases.  I
>>have them all, they are in the correct directory, everything is correct in my
>>chssbase.ini file, all that is cool.  This is either, 1.) an error in fritz or
>>2.) an error in the tablebase.  I have the latest service pack, and everything
>>on my end is up to date, a-ok.  Even ran a scandisk and nothing on my HD is
>>corrupted.
>>
>>Anyone else have this problem in their Fritz?  That was the main question.  If
>>you load the #43 position, and will your Fritz mate with all the 3/4/5 pieces?
>>
>>Thanks again,
>>Slate
>
>Hello Slate,
>Did you read my post below?  My Fritz and tablebases work perfectly.  Fritz
>announces Mate in 16 instantly when you have the proper tablebases.  You must
>have a problem with one or the other.  You can test your tablebases by trying
>the same position with another program like Crafty.  If you get the same results
>then you have a tablebase problem.  If Crafty works then you have a Fritz
>problem.
>Jim

Hmmm, I forgot.  Crafty may be a bad one to use because Bob may have put in a
work around when a tablebase is missing.  Not sure.  But the idea is still good
if you have any other program that uses tablebases.
Jim



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