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Subject: Re: Tablebases on F6 CD

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:12:51 11/14/01

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On November 14, 2001 at 04:58:10, Michael R wrote:

>On November 14, 2001 at 04:54:07, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On November 14, 2001 at 04:14:17, Michael R wrote:
>>
>>>Is there any difference between downloading them or using the TB generator? As
>>>far as performace. And what is the correct procedure after downloading them for
>>>them to work?
>>
>>1)There is no difference between the methods for performance.
>>
>>2)I believe that after downloading them you should put them in the right
>>directory that is mentioned in the right file in the chessbase directory
>>
>>For example my yace can use tablebases because my yace.ini has the following
>>line:
>>tbldir c:\Program Files\Chessbase
>>
>>My tablebases are excatly in this file.
>>
>>If you want native engines to use tablebases you cango to the tablebase
>>generator and write the relevant path in the directory.
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>Ok thankyou, I guess what I'm ultimately trying to figure out is why it takes 4+
>hours to install one 5 peice TB when I can just download the same one in about
>5-6 minutes.

Why it takes so much time for humans (with no computer to help them) to
calculate 823456*765432 when reading the result(12 digit number) takes only few
seconds?

This is a retoric question and you do not need to answer

The answer to my question is similiar to the answer to your question.

Uri



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