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Subject: Tablebases and tablebase depth (Dr. Hyatt)

Author: john rice

Date: 15:12:58 06/13/01


Hello,
Could you please answer these 2 questions?
1. I was going to add all of the missing 5 piece endgames to the folder named
"tablebases" my Nalimov endgame turbo program created. So I went to Dr. Hyatt's
website for the files. The problem I discovered is the endgame files have a
slightly different name. For example: the Nalimov file appears like this
(kpknbw.emd) while the files on Dr. Hyatt's site appear like this (kpk.nbw.emd).
Will these files work together? Why the . between kpk and nbw?

2. I am running a dual harddrive (raid) setup. It is twice as fast as a single
harddrive. I would like to take advantage of the access speed these harddrives
provide by increasing the depth of assessment of the tablebase. In the engine
settings for Deep Fritz the tablebase depth setting has values of 0 up to 20.
The default is 3. What setting would you recommend for optimal strength for the
endgames? I believe the lower the number the deeper the assessment.
Thanks in advance,
Jr



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