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Subject: Re: Endgame tablebase file names (Dr. Hyatt)

Author: John Hatcher

Date: 10:24:12 06/18/01

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On June 18, 2001 at 13:10:19, john rice wrote:

>Hello,
>I would like to add the missing 5 man tablebases that were not included with the
>Nalimov Endgame Turbo 4 CD set. I went to the UAB ftp site to download them but
>discoved the files are named a little different:
>                 krrrk.nbb.emd     vs    krrrdnbb.emd
>As you can see the Nalimov files do not have the extra "." in the file name. How
>would you recommend I add the files I am missing dispite the slightly different
>filenames?
>Thanks in advance,
>Jr


I had the same question a while ago.  The period makes no difference; the chess
program will read them just fine.  Of course, you can always modify the names of
the tablebases you download to make them consistent with the Turbo CD set.
That's what I did.

JOHN




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