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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger (Chess Partner interface) and tablebases

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:40:24 10/01/01

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On October 01, 2001 at 13:21:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 01, 2001 at 11:48:05, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On September 30, 2001 at 23:23:06, Terry Presgrove 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 have quite a few 6 man tablebases and they seem to work
>>> fine using Gambit 2.0 ?
>>>
>>> TP
>>
>>
>>
>>Well as Jim pointed out, they indeed seem to work...
>>
>>I thought I had something special to do, but actually it looks like it works
>>already...
>>
>>Good news, isn't it?
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>
>Maybe or maybe not.  You _do_ have to do something if you use Eugene's probe
>code.  You have to compile it telling it whether to only probe the 3 vs 3
>6 piece files, or to ignore 6 piece files.  The default is to ignore them,
>which saves a lot of memory.  T33_INCLUDE must be defined when you compile the
>egtb.cpp code to actually probe the 6 piece files...


I wonder if this is a case of the chesspartner GUI probing the tablebases,
because
it was compiled with -DT33_INCLUDE, but tiger not probing in the search because
it was not???



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