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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger & Gambit Tiger Nalimov Tablebases Support??

Author: Chessfun

Date: 15:02:46 03/23/01

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On March 23, 2001 at 17:56:37, Chessfun wrote:

>On March 23, 2001 at 12:43:01, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On March 23, 2001 at 10:48:28, T. Dex wrote:
>>
>>>With the new CT 14 & GT 2 supporting the Nalimov Tablebases Endgames my question
>>>is where do I get these endgames?  Will the Fritz Endgame Turbo work with
>>>CT14/GT2?
>>
>>
>>You will have several choices.
>>
>>The recommended choice is to buy an endgame CD from either:
>>* ChessAssistant
>>or
>>* ChessBase
>>
>>Both will allow Tiger to use endgame tablebases. You will just need to install
>>the endgame CD, no further configuration step is required.
>>
>>So if you have the Fritz Endgame Turbo, yes it will work with Tiger. If you have
>>already installed it, you have nothing to do, Tiger will use the endgames
>>tablebases (even if you are using Rebel-Tiger from Schröder BV or Tiger in
>>ChessAssistant 6.0 from Convekta).
>>
>>Or you can also download "for free" the endgame tablebases files from the
>>Internet. Bob has them for download on its sever (don't remember the URL).
>>However in this case, be prepared to download times of several hours to several
>>days depending on your connection speed, so in the end the download is not free
>>at all (depends on your ISP fees).
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>
>As an idea of time, I downloaded all 5 men tablebases from
>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/five/ on a cable
>modem it took about 8 hours.
>
>Sarah.

Maybe I should have added that on downloading the tablebases
the format is ex; kbbk.nbb.emd while on say the Fritz 6 CD they
are kbbknbb.emd. I found with removing the first . from kbbk.nbb.emd
or adding the . to kbbknbb.emd the tablebases didn't work correctly.
It could have been that I had the same files with different names,
no idea, but now they read all the same and it all works fine.
This was regardless of program.

Sarah.



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