Author: Paul Petersson
Date: 02:52:47 04/20/01
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On April 19, 2001 at 10:28:07, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 18, 2001 at 09:47:59, Paul Petersson wrote: > >>On April 18, 2001 at 06:15:02, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>For some reasons Paul simply stopped posting the result. >> >>Yes. I had two problems. Both had to do with the tablebases. GT2 didn't always >>access the tablebases in positions where I expected it to do so. I mailed >>Christophe but haven't received an answer yet, but I eventually saw a reasonable >>explanation for this behaviuor in the Rebel forum. >>When I resumed playing after a break I found that GT2 didn't access the >>tabelbases at all! It took some time before I found the problem and could fix >>it. >> >>I will post the remaining games here soon. How it ended? J6 suffered it's >>biggest defeat ever! ;-))) >> >> >>Paul > > > >Sorry Paul, I have not answered your email yet. As you guess I am very busy (and >it looks like it is going to get even worse in the near future :( ). No matter. I can wait. :) > >I did not think the TB problem was a serious one. You are the only one to have >reported this so far, so I thought it was simply a setup problem. > >I have no idea where the problem is. Are you 100% sure there is a problem? Yes, but I'm not exactly sure about the sequence of actions that caused this, but I did manage to get exactly the same problem on two computers. One is running NT4, the other Win98lite. Tiger >does not access tablebases in a very agressive way, so maybe it does access them >but you don't notice as much noise as with other programs? No, there was no access at all. When I looked in ct.ini I found that no matter what I did in the GUI, the setting was TB=0. When I manually set TB=1, it worked again. > >Just trying to guess what's happening... I have a theory on how it happened. I'll see if I can reproduce it a third time. Paul > > > > Christophe
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