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

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 14:49:11 10/01/01

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On October 01, 2001 at 13:40:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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???



No, the CP interface uses the older TBs.

I have just checked and #define T33_INCLUDE is in Tiger's source code...

I must be losing my neurons faster than I thought...


    Christophe



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