Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 18:50:09 04/13/01
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On April 13, 2001 at 21:44:51, James T. Walker wrote: >On April 12, 2001 at 13:38:25, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On April 12, 2001 at 13:30:32, Edward Seid wrote: >> >>>Hello, >>> >>>I'm new to this forum so please forgive me if this has been covered before. >>> >>>I've bought Rebel 11, applied for and received computer accts on FICS and USCL, >>>and have decided to use the Nalimov EGTBs. >>> >>>Decided that I would d/l the 3-4 piece EGTBs and build the 5 piece ones (I have >>>an Athlon 1 GHz w/ 768 RAM). Downloaded the single zip file nalimovc.zip >>>available from Dann Corbit's FTP site. After unzipping, 65 files resulted. >>>Just to double check, I visited Robert Hyatt's FTP site at UAB and found 10 >>>3-man an 60 4-man files... 70 files total. >>> >>>I discovered 5 4-man files on Hyatt's FTP that were omitted from Corbit's single >>>file download. They were kqqk (both nbw and nbb), kqrk (both nbw and nbb) and >>>krkb (nbw only). >>> >>>Was this on purpose or did I discover an error in the Corbit's single file >>>download? >> >>The files (kqqk, kqrk) are not terribly interesting when you think about it. >>With that sort of material advantage, any chess program will win immediately. >> >>Not sure about krkb (but as I recall some files are symmetric and the partner is >>not needed.) I will have to check that one. > >Hello Dann, >I know Bob fixed Crafty so if some of the tablebases were missing it knew how to >proceed. Problem is there are some programs out there if the promotion files >are missing they hang up on things like #17 then #17 again and can't make >progress without the promotion tablebase. Just something to consider. >Jim Hmm.. I didn't know there were missing 4 men tbs at Dann's site. Hey Dann , how about including the missing ones into the Nalimovc.zip? It's not much bigger anyway.. I like that file because it's quite easy to download all in one go, that's why my site pointed to the file on your ftp.. Aaron
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