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Subject: Re: Thank You Professor Hyatt

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:18:49 04/26/01

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On April 26, 2001 at 13:44:37, pjt wrote:

>Mr. Hyatt I also want to thank you for providing the endgame tablebases on your
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>website. Thank you for what you have done for all chessplayers :)
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>PJ
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Then you should thank Eugene instead.  He wrote the code, tested and debugged,
it, then generated all the files.  All I have to do is buy disks faster than
he can fill them up.  :)




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>On April 26, 2001 at 09:26:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>>On April 26, 2001 at 09:08:47, Ed Panek wrote:
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>>> I would like to thank Mr. Hyatt for providing the 3,4 and 5 Tb's on his FTP
>>>site. I am still FTP Mgetting them at this time over a cable modem. My question
>>>was this. I noticed that the Chessbase Tb's have a .tbs extension and these have
>>>an .emd extension. Can I delete the .tbs extension files and use the tbs from
>>>Hyatts site with chessbase? I want to conserve disk space as much as possible.
>>>Also how effective would it be to download a portion of the 6 man tbs?
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>>>Ed
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>>.tbs is something else.  These are ascii files that contain summary information
>>about the TB calculations...  deepest mate, etc.  You don't need them to play
>>chess so they can be deleted whenever you want.  Only the .emd files are
>>important.



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