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Subject: Re: How can you tell program is actually using Tablebases?

Author: Gordon Rattray

Date: 08:26:39 08/02/01

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On August 02, 2001 at 10:58:36, Ed Panek wrote:

>On August 02, 2001 at 10:55:02, James H Swinney wrote:
>
>>Using either Fritz or Junior GUI, how can you tell if the program is
>>using tablebase files? I know how to set them up in the ini file but
>>I'm not sure if they ever actually get accessed?
>>Thanks
>>JS
>
>Where is the ini file pointing the program to look for them? On my computer I
>have them on my hard disk...so in the endgame when I see the HDD light flashing
>and hear the HDD churning, I know they are working...also my NPS goes down the
>more they are accessed. If the CD rom is the loaction maybe your CD rom activity
>light will flash as it tries to get values.
>
>
>Ed


Additionally, if the engine analysis is open with scrolling analysis, the number
of TB hits will be shown in the analysis lines (if there are any hits at all).

Gordon



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