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Subject: Re: Tablebase Problems ?? FYI

Author: José Carlos

Date: 06:27:29 11/29/01

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On November 29, 2001 at 09:02:38, James T. Walker wrote:

>In case some people here don't know it:  If you have a corrupted tablebase,
>programs like Fritz/Junior will refuse to run until the tablebase is fixed.  If
>you have 220 tablebase files like I do it can be a problem identifying which one
>is corrupted/bad.  Running Crafty will tell you which tablebase is bad.  It's
>then easy to replace just the bad one and you are off and running again.  Thanks
>again Bob. (It's happened 2 time now)
>Jim

  Yep, if you set (when you link Eugine's code in your program) the flag "CRC
check" (or something like that, I don't remember), the program won't run if a
tablebase file is corrupted.
  And yep, Crafty, Comet and some other will tell you what file is wrong.

  José C.



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