Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 08:46:23 10/01/01
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On September 30, 2001 at 23:59:00, James T. Walker wrote:
>On September 30, 2001 at 20:47:50, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On September 30, 2001 at 19:37:34, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>On September 30, 2001 at 19:22:44, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 30, 2001 at 13:57:32, Joakim Nilsson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>If i dl the 6-piece tablebases will Chess Tiger be able to access them?I need to
>>>>>know if it works before i dl all that :-) It takes some time...
>>>>>/Jocke
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>You can start to download them now.
>>>>
>>>>Chess Tiger 14 does not use the 6-men tablebases (it stops at 5 men), but at the
>>>>time you have downloaded them there will be Tiger 15 available, which will use
>>>>them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Christophe
>>>
>>>Hello Christophe,
>>>I'm sorry if I gave out the wrong information. I have only downloaded one of
>>>the 6 man tablebases (KBBKBN) and Chess Tiger 14.0 appears to use it. ??
>>>Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>The engine only uses the 5-men tablebases. Most probably the search quickly
>>reaches 5-men positions, and the TB accesses you see are on the 5-men TBs.
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>Hello Christophe,
>With the following position here is what happens:
>[D]1n2kb2/8/8/8/8/8/8/2B1KB2 w - - 0 1
>
>I get this in the statistics box:
>
>Score: 0.00 depth 43
>Bb5+
>
>If I clear out the path to the six man tablebase(KBBKBN) I get the normal search
>statistics. Of course I only have this one 6man tablebase.
>
>00:00:00.5 0.76 9 266053 Ke2 Nd7 Kd3 Bc5 Bf4 Ke7 Bg2 Nf6 Bc6
>
>Jim
Well now I'm very puzzled...
In the source code of the Nalimov TB code I can see that only access to the 5
men TB is activated. I do not understand.
Your example clearly shows that they are activated.
So I must be wrong when I say that they are not... That's good news! :)
Christophe
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