Author: Poschmann
Date: 22:37:05 08/02/01
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On August 03, 2001 at 00:41:10, William Penn wrote: >On August 02, 2001 at 10:29:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 02, 2001 at 02:51:16, William Penn wrote: >> >>>I don't understand. Is there a problem in semantics? I downloaded my tablebases >>>with the nbb and nbw extensions from your ftp site. It works fine... >>>WP >> >> >>They are larger. the .emd files add up to 7 gigs. the .nbb/.nbw files add up >>to over 20 gigabytes. In addition, accessing the compressed files is actually >>faster unless you have the very fastest scsi disks around... then they now >>appear to break even. And for 1/3 the disk space, why not use compressed? I >>do and I have fast scsi drives. > >I'm sold! But will .emd files work with my ChessBase/Fritz GUI with engines such >as Hiarcs 7.32, Deep Fritz, Junior 7, etc.? >WP On the Fritz6-CD there is a directory TB or Tablebases or so. In this directory there are some *.emd-files. They work fine. The file names are sligthly different to the names of the files of Prof. Hyatt ftp-page. If you rename the downloaded files, it should be work. In this directory there is also a tablebase generator. I generated kbb-kn last night. It works. But if you have a fast internet access it is of course faster to download them. Ralf Poschmann
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