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Subject: Incorporating the Nalimov tablebases into a chess program

Author: Tom Likens

Date: 19:59:32 01/08/02



Hello,

After a hiatus, I've dusted off my old chess program and started working
on it.  One of the first things I'm adding is support for Eugene Nalimov's
tablebases but I've run into a minor snag.  Everything works great as
long as I only try to read the uncompressed tablebases, but when it
tries to access a compressed tablebase I get the following message:

*** Unable to read /wrk2/egtb/TB/kbnk.nbw.emd - file broken

I'm using the routines off of Robert Hyatt's ftp site which have compressed
support.  The code seems to indicate that it will simply recognize either
a compressed file or an uncompressed file, but no such luck so far.
I feel this must have a trivial solution (such as not initializing a
variable or some such) but I'm missing it.

Anyway, thanks in advance.  Special kudos go to Mr. Nalimov, for the
obvious hard work.  It amazes me at the quality of work that people are
simply willing to give away.

regards,

--Tom Likens



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