Author: William Penn
Date: 23:43:33 08/03/01
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On August 04, 2001 at 02:34:22, William Penn wrote: >On August 03, 2001 at 01:37:05, Poschmann wrote: > >>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 > >Thank you. Now if I had a precise definition of the exact format required for >the .emd file names with the ChessBase/Fritz GUI, I'd be able to do it with >confidence. If you care to give me that info, I'd appreciate it, otherwise I'll >keep my eyes open and perhaps run across it someday!? Regards, >--WP Well, I looked, and apparently I already have the so-called .emd files. At least they are the same size an on Prof. Hyatt's ftp site. So it looks like the only problem here is with semantics. --WP
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